“Tragic part is, Merv’s craftier by half than what he makes out he is. It suits Merv to act the village idiot, ’cause all the other kids expect it.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“First of all, it’s not ironic. I’m kind of a music historian. And for your info, I thought I could wear, um, one of Dad’s suits. Since he’s not going to be using them.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They wore ordinary suits but funny hats, like a motorman’s hat only the top was squashed in. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hurly-burly of politics did not suit his temperament, which was only comfortable when ensconced on his mountaintop and redesigning his mansion at Monticello. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There were about a hundred of them, all in sober black suits, but the suits were all they had in common. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Henry mostly sends tame, fully clothed thirst traps that make Alex sweat in his lectures: a mirror shot, mud-stained white polo pants, a sharp suit. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Shadow transferred his glance to the man in the pale suit—Mr. Wednesday? American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I'm suited up because there's a big hole in the front of the ship where the window and part of the hull used to be. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent most of the day in a space suit, working in his hot lab, putting together his tests. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its walls were lined with racks of suits and shirts, and it smelled to me like dry-cleaning fluid. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The picture jumps around wildly until it’s on a boy in an orange suit with police all around him. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Director slithers out from behind them, glaring at me—his suit wrinkled, his face beet-red. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit looks back at Celia, and when he speaks she understands the words once more. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Marco escorts the man in the grey suit through the library, sliding the stained glass open to access the empty game room and continue their conversation. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

What would they think if they could see him in his three-piece suit, spear in hand, crouchin’ low to stalk a tiger? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a tragedy in that gym suit. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit takes the boy for a week in France that is not precisely a holiday. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When the girls had finished picking out their clothes and bathing suits for the pageant, compliments of Ladybird Hope’s pageant-wear line, Harris showed them around, enjoying his role as beauty queen escort. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“How about,” Jesse began, “you coming down and taking a look at ’um, and if they suit you, you could take ’um along home when you go tell Momma where I am?” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then she slipped a suit jacket over her lilac blouse, pinned a hat of imitation lilacs on the top of her head, powdered her nose briefly and adjusted her thick spectacles. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But all the jobs seemed hard for Moon Orchid, who was wearing stockings and dress shoes and a suit. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of June was spent smoking it, tanning it, and finally, starting on my deerskin suit. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Said I to Dr. Trefusis, “No, sir. It is a fashion that suits me.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then I suited up and headed out to the rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even this memory dates me, and the little thrill of triumph that goes with it: what woman, now, would think of a pant suit as liberation? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was a maturing young man who needed his sleep, and this new early schedule didn’t suit him at all. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

What if the suit of armor had been empty for a reason? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It’s a struggle to get to my feet and peel off my Mockingjay suit. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Magic,” the man in the grey suit repeats, turning the word into a laugh. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Van Eck took a deep breath and tried to set his suit to rights. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit takes a handkerchief from his pocket and drops it on the table, where it lands with a muffled thump, something heavier than silk hidden in the folds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was still wearing my EVA suit, because I'm not an idiot. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fat bodies are dangling from one of the palm trees, and their previous thin bodies, wispy-looking and dressed in falling-apart bathing suits, are holding hands and walking into the ocean. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d pictured myself, dressed in a neat blue serge suit, my money changer swinging jauntily at my waist, and a cheery smile for the passengers which would make their own work day brighter. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if there might be Ebola blood inside her space suit, somewhere close to that cut on the palm of her hand. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came to a sudden halt in front of a tall suit of armor. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And after years of track suits and crystal-covered leos on competition days, just getting dressed every day for school seemed like an adventure I couldn’t wait to start. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Sitting Man with the cap and epaulettes, also intimidated by Chacko’s suit and sideways tie, allowed him into the baggage claim section. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, no, they want the nice boys with hair oil and new shoes that have fathers with suits and ties and steady jobs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They looked like carpenter ants in their black suits. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The man in the yellow suit was as courteous as always. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You thought the traveling suit Dessie made to go to San Jose was store bought.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Within seconds, two suited men breeze past me, lift him by the arms and haul him, still coughing, toward town. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I find that I am suited to the task, and that I enjoy it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The batteries that pressurized the suit had a life span of six hours. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, I don't want to mess with the suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie was once again struck by the man’s size, his suit jacket straining against his massive belly. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A gaggle of pristine suits and strategically placed silk handkerchiefs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"I love you," John repeated, so she would follow suit. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Then he went to a box that had been his mother’s and drew from it a fresh suit of blue cotton cloth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Dirndls, kerchiefs, and suit coats flapped in the breeze. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Generally you need a support team to help you put on a field biological suit, and my traveling companion Fred Grant was acting in this capacity. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I went up to the university, the regent bought me my first suit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore expensive, double-breasted American suits and wide- brimmed hats, and paid a great deal of attention to his appearance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His gray suit is wrinkled and he’s got bags under his eyes like he hasn’t slept in days. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Aboard the USS Arizona, an officer was about to suit up to play in the United States Fleet championship baseball game. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“So,” he says, smiling a cautious smile, which doesn’t suit him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He, like the rest of us, is now dressed in a standard, formfitting suit of red body armor that starkly contrasts with the world around us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a kid smiling on the monkey bars, a man in a suit drinking coffee while deep in thought, and an old couple holding hands on a park bench. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

At the Institute, there is a Level 4 biocontainment hospital called the Slammer, where a patient can be treated by doctors and nurses wearing space suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in a fine suit; he wore watches on both wrists; and his hair, though quite wet as Kate had mentioned, was perfectly combed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Castro had to be president of some company or other, a young general in a Wall Street suit, conservative haircut, ramrod posture. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The night before, I'd driven down to Minnie's to get a suit for Walter to wear at the hearing, since he would finally be able to walk out of court a free man. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

What I notice right away about the walk-in closet is that there are tons of dark suits hanging everywhere, looking like rows of men at a funeral. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Not the bulky suit itself, just the inner clothing I wear under it, including the gloves and booties. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This hauberk I wear is large for me, but it should fit Conn nicely, and the battle-axe I carry would suit Shagga's mighty hand far better than that wood-axe he holds." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They have pressure seals, allowing the occupants to drive without space suits during long periods traversing the surface. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke to the soldiers as they suited up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got out of bed and looked at the oval travelling alarm clock On the wardrobe door, the cream-coloured linen suit hung, showing palely through its polythene. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

When a Graham Avenue trolley came along, he swung up on to the platform suiting his rhythm to the car’s slowing down. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, in Buffalo, my suit was nearly tom off. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took a little while to bring it up to par, and I had to disable some alarms on the suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can also speak while upside down and underwater, but not today because I just had this suit dry-cleaned and do not want to get it wet.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in business clothes, a suit and tie, like he was maybe just getting off work, even though it was too early in the afternoon for that. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

And there, shimmering in the Mist right next to us, was the last person I wanted to see: Mr. D, wearing his leopard-skin jogging suit and rummaging through the refrigerator. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were two other men there: a naval officer and a man in a suit. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a man in a business suit pacing the platform. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The pay was just above minimum wage, which suited me fine. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Something I couldn't do with the leaky suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They now wore three layers of gloves: the inner-lining glove, the space- suit glove, and the outer glove. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, his real name is Samuel Austin Thornton, but Satan suits him better. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The suit protected Holly from the worst of the elements, but she could still feel the chill sinking into her bones. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ben was dressed in a dark blue suit that Lillian had bought at a PX sale for ten dollars the year before. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one with the gray suit and expensive watch. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She asked me why he looked like he had just run a mile in his business suit. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I look at her and realize how well suited they are, Anna and Tom. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other virtual worlds soon followed suit, from the Metaverse to the Matrix. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It looked like she was literally jumping into a disaster, wearing a black scuba suit and a red jacket that a piano teacher would wear for a holiday recital. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

A black man answered wearing a dark suit. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made no protest when the friend touched the small of her back as she was about to make a pot of coffee, then pulled her against his crisp navy suit. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“This has gotten out of hand,” the man in the grey suit says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

This was less tricky than taking the suit off, but it still took time to do properly. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In a corner of the room, photographers had cornered Jesse Owens, dressed in an ice-cream-white suit, and talked him into posing with a saxophone. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In his dark business suits, he looked nice but easily forgettable, like somebody’s nephew at a funeral. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young black man in the checkered suit, after reading the letter, grudgingly gave me papers indicating that I was now qualified to apply for a pass. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore her gym suit baggy, like a romper. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

For instance, the girls have an elaborate system of body clues by which they can tell what kind of a man you’re suited for. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it clicks off, I’m shivering, but the numbness suits me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

His dad finally arrives in a flurry of Secret Service agents, his beard impeccably groomed and his suit impeccably tailored. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trenton raised an eyebrow, tilting her head toward Mr. Baxter, who was now standing by a few men who looked equally unhappy to be in their suits. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A woman with a cute, short haircut and a navy blue suit took our tickets and ushered us out the door. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lobby was full of men dressed in suits or sport coats standing in small groups, drinking, talking, and laughing. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

My mother says it is okay for me to have a lawsuit, but I can’t wear the sort of suits Julia Roberts did!” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in a boy’s suit, and she looked like an attractive young boy. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hauled on their space suits and sealed the Ziploc zippers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a dark suit, a white shirt open at the collar, and a dark skullcap. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The doctor wore a proper black suit and carried a black bag. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit nods and pulls a handkerchief from his coat, picking up the ring without touching it and placing it in his pocket. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Back at the public beach the bathing suits were hot pink and yellow. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in a gray suit and a light blue bow tie. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Cora slapped her hands on the cushions of the parlor car and said the farm suited her just fine. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then I fired up the EVA suit, leaving the helmet off. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though this is preseason, shortened bouts, we’re all suited up. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Several men and one woman, all wearing business suits and carrying briefcases, were talking to the uniformed men. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe,” said Mrs. Brewer, “that Mr. Shelton—he’s a colored teacher at Horace Mann—is working on filing a suit with the NAACP.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One knight wore an intricate suit of white enameled scales, brilliant as a field of new-fallen snow, with silver chasings and clasps that glittered in the sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You’re definitely better suited to a gilded cage than to a real one.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In other words, if one used equipment designed to examine electrons as particles, they would appear to behave as particles; if one used equipment best suited for detecting waves, they appeared as waves. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I push the old suit back to its dusty corner. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have realized that no train slave would suit me long term. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catherine put down her book and threw a thigh-length robe over her bathing suit as she ran up to the house. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Tyrion owned a fine suit of heavy plate, expertly crafted to fit his misshapen body. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I also loaded my inventory with my best suit of body armor and a large amount of weaponry. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Now and again we passed a leiter-wagon—the ordinary peasant’s cart—with its long, snake-like vertebra, calculated to suit the inequalities of the road. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They almost suffocated from the heat inside their suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned and found Dionysus standing there, still in his black suit. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Please try to avoid vomiting on his suit.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

All the men and women in suits are all sweaty and tired. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Theresa walked me up to a tall, powerful-looking woman in a maroon warm-up suit. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hustler intended to pawn a suit for ten dollars to attend and patronize the bazaar. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the chaos, Jerome quickly took off his suit jacket and covered my head with it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a military pilot’s flight suit, with tiny bird’s wings fluttering on his helmet and his black leather boots. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She reached over to a wall and pulled down a coiled yellow air hose and plugged it into her suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out the window I can see Mrs. Scatcherd and Mr. Curran on the platform talking to two men in suits and ties and black fedoras, with several policemen behind them. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Today, he put on a suit and tie. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Augustus wore a black suit, narrow lapels, perfectly tailored, over a light blue dress shirt and a thin black tie. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

In place of the hood and the robe, he now wears a very respectable gray flannel suit. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This young guy had a metallicky suit and a paisley tie. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Rachel and Adah were assigned any number of hope-chest projects to work on, but the domestic arena was never my long suit, so I was to focus on a single, big project: a cross-stitch tablecloth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was wearing a thin pink jogging suit. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

With the gray suit, she wore a cherry-colored tarn pulled over one eye and vici-kid high buttoned shoes with spool heels. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

O’Dell followed suit and wiped his mouth, tears streaming down his cheeks. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The pressure suits, for example, had been covered with nylon, and that was replaced with something called Beta cloth, which did not burn as easily. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a pleasant change from their usual routine—Nikhil showered, in his suit, flying out the door as she’s just pouring herself a first cup of coffee. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we pulled up to the courthouse, there was already a big crowd waiting outside: men in suits and brimmed hats, and women wearing their best Sunday dresses. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

We unbuckled our belts and waited while mostly men in suits, college students, and a few women with children made their way down the aisle and to the front of the plane. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a rumpled plaid suit, and his wispy hair had been finger-combed and wouldn’t lie down. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She could look at the person and eyeball their height or weight and therefore their size, and buy what she needed to make their suit. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his suit and had his Bible in his hand, but there he stood, saying he had to stay home. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"I agree. The very reason I left the Chamberlain's Men. There were too many fools in it to suit me." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I said: “Mr. Loomis, the suit is in the wagon, in the trunk. You folded it up and put it there. Can’t you remember?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“No,” said the man in the yellow suit. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like crying thinking about how this job would suit me fine and what Miss Hilly’s done to keep me from getting it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

You can't see any part of me when I'm in the suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The late of the night is suited for less cerebral pursuits. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I handed out my suits on hangers, my shoes in the game pocket of a hunting coat, and my shirts in their neat wrapping of New England road maps. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in their Sunday best—women in high heels and white gloves, men in suits wearing tie clasps—they might have been on their way to church. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smelled like ripe plums, which suited her. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And since we don't wear no suits, that's like saying the worst thing is a dude with a fresh haircut, wearing a wack outfit, which we agreed could not be us. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He wore his tuxedo suit which had been cleaned and pressed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the yellow suit jerked away, but it was too late. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day he and Maxine walk about the property barefoot in their bathing suits. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had given him new underclothes and a clean suit of overalls. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A powerful-looking man in his sixties, wearing a beautifully tailored linen suit and holding a Panama hat, stood on the gallery above and looked down over the iron railing. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There it remained for ten minutes while the astronaut inside suited up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the gray suit gazed out at the horizon. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I grabbed Vogel's suit and activated the internal air sensors while leaving the helmet off. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily Sue and I were going to Welch to buy me a suit for Indianapolis. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit considers this for a moment before he nods. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My mother had died about eight months earlier, and my eighty-four-year-old father, in a natty seersucker suit, sat in a reserved section with the school board president, an old friend. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Singer entered the door first, very straight and swank in his tailored Sunday suit. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Big Ma turned her nose up at the college girls with Afros in favor of the Negro lady in the square sunglasses and snappy suit toting the equally snappy oval bag. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two teachers in dark suits talked decorously beside a broken fountain. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia searches the cardboard box containing the few articles Felicia left behind and finds her daughter’s black bathing suit. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thalia turned to help some of the Aphrodite kids, who were having trouble suiting up their armor without breaking their nails. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

After dark, he’d pack suits in bags, then turn off the burglar alarm, and use the telephone to call a waiting truck and crew. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He will switch between two suits so each will last. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

You won’t see my hair in the picture, and my space suit is too large for me. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy went to the office of a member of her staff, a lieutenant colonel named Ron Trotter, and told him to suit up and go in; she would follow. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under that tarp, wearing space suits, they dissected any small animals they had trapped, looking for signs of Marburg virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he said that all the great writers used to wear suits all the time. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The woman with the navy suit and white sneakers. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The older one was climbing up the vines to follow suit. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“It is true,” agreed Poirot, “that the food in Syria was not, perhaps, quite suited to my stomach.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He's taking his suit off right now and can't reply," Beck reported, "but he heard the order." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he'd give me a large tip, or a suit, or a scholarship next year. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A prep school kid, a touch arty, wearing an old man’s suit and no doubt reading Camus or Kerouac. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If Edward had taken the suit, and left, and never come back, he would, in effect, have doomed Mr. Loomis to stay in the laboratory—perhaps forever—probably forever. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In my room I peel off my damp bathing suit and put on the first clothes I pull from my bureau, an old shirt and shorts that don’t match. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would anyone wear shoes on the Cape? It’s like wearing a wet suit in the bathtub.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She was wearing this knockout tennis suit, and here I was in my black jeans and army jacket. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I had an identical backup suit hanging in the MoshWash cleaning unit in the corner of the room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He’s all dressed up in a black suit and bow tie. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I can stay for a day or two, tops, before the C02 filters from the rover and my space suit fill up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suit in which I had travelled was gone, and also my overcoat and rug; I could find no trace of them anywhere. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was beautifully dressed in a dark suit with a well-pressed shirt and tie. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

My deerskin rabbit-lined suit was so warm that even when my breath froze in my nostrils, my body was snug and comfortable. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lounging in the sun at 28,700 feet inside my thick down suit, gazing across the roof of the world in a hypoxic stupor, I completely lost track of time. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, Len, the man from the party who was drinking far too much tonic, walks in behind us fully suited up as well. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of the men got up from his chair and offered it to Abuela while a lady in a suit moved over excitedly to make room. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We had on suits so we wouldn’t smell it. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother would not put on a bathing suit or swim. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If Aunt Loma was mad, which she would be, that suited me just fine. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Dad was talking loudly, at a volume that would have suited a mountainside but was thunderous in the small restaurant. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You mean you would leave them to bring the suit back? You’re lying, Edward.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was Hermione, who had been sitting at the feet of a suit of armor, repacking her bag, which was so full of books it wouldn’t close. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She helps me take off my Confirmation suit and puts me to bed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I am,” replied the man, surprised to be addressed by a mouse in a sailor suit. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I had only considered formal suits. A similar sort of gown might do just as well, I suppose.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Their air was going stale inside their space suits, and they needed to plug in right away. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The company of men long dead seemed to suit him better than that of the living, and his boar seemed happy rooting amongst the graves, well away from other animals. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Meet me at the parking building in an hour. And wear your new suit. I want to see it on you.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“How hard would it be for him to put his suit on in the house, or wear a bathing suit underneath?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It gave him a little shock to see his mother all of a sudden, in the transparent stockings and shoulder-padded suits she wore to her job, peering into the corners of Mrs. Sen’s apartment. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She sat up straight, like someone had slipped a yardstick down the back of her bright red business suit. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I had to keep my EVA suit on the whole time because there's no life support in there just yet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father wears a cream suit with wide black lapels. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A diminutive captain cutting an unstalwart figure in his flight suit, walked to the colonel’s desk and saluted. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cut of his suit is too sharp. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In minutes, the tables are full and the Director stomps to the front of the room in the same dark suit he wore at the orientation. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

With breakfast out of the way, I pulled on my clean haptic suit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“The Council felt I was best suited to this task, as we’ve had dealings before.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A group of older gentlemen in matching white suits shuffled onto a stage at the far end of the club. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Your hair really does very much suit you. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

We were an odd couple, for I affected the informal dress I had gotten used to underground and wore khakis and fatigues, while Robbie was always smartly turned out in a suit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s too weak-willed and passive to suit me; she lets herself be swayed by others and always backs down under pressure. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Fedora tilted to one side, suit neady buttoned, face in shadow, the Mahdi approaches her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“But I can. If you’d lend me the suit, I could go.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He seemed to light up as he moved past in his pressed, clean-smelling suit, grazing my shoulders and arms with his. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elderly man in the brown suit was standing by the hood now, leaning on a cane, looking up at the house. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He’ll come back in a few years with a new suit and fat on his bones like any Yank and a lovely girl with white teeth hangin’ from his arm. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had quickly become the leader of the few Hasidic students in the school, the ones who walked around wearing dark suits, tieless shirts, beards, fringes, and earlocks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As a speaker railed against the never-ending war, Barker’s team mingled, not exactly blending in—they were the only ones in suits. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Three times his space suit had been punctured and his skin broken and the cut smeared with animal blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one knew what would happen if their very hot exhaust gases touched my suit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d put on a big padded suit that he’d made out of pillows, a tattered movers’ blanket, and a pair of puffy winter parkas. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As we drove silently down 1-4,1 found myself thinking about the day that the guy in the gray suit showed up dead. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

His gray suit and tie made him look like a lawyer, plus the way he stood there with his hands clasped in front of him, all serious, as he focused on the judge. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit halts, though he could easily continue on through his colleague’s apparition unimpeded. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“In that suit, you look like you should work in this building,” I say to him. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I want you to see the way my mom spread her stuff into his side of the closet, how it looks like his suits were never even hanging there in the first place. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But be warned that some find this grating, especially at the front of a sentence: Due to the hole, Richie threw the suit away. equally as. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing the top half of a blue bathing suit and a Hawaiian-style wraparound skirt. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Learning that they attempted to negotiate with the settlers, wearing European-style suits and addressing Congress in the assumption of good faith—and were repeatedly lied to and betrayed—enrages her. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She wore the same dark blue suit, had the same tightly rolled hairstyle. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

If I suited Pop’s fancy, I might be invited to one of her sherry parties and meet her current crop of foreign girls. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Hedge was well suited for banging on things. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were three men, all in dark suits, standing on the front porch. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Glenn Cunningham was there, dressed in a sharp gray suit and a bright yellow tie. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The tent, of course, was made of the same stuff as the suit, and so was the trunk itself. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Fairy gowns and suits shimmer like the wings of dragonflies. Fairies drink from cups the shape of lupine bells. Fountains of juice and nectar of all different colors fill their cups.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in a black suit, old-fashioned in style but neat, not ragged. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

As I’m zipping up my suit, my hand skips over a lump against my chest. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The fairy suited up, zipping the dull-green jumpsuit up to her chin and strapping on her helmet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

"If the seal on the bridge doesn't hold, we'll get sucked out at close to the speed of sound. We'll be jelly with or without suits on." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

More of the team rolled up in their running gear, a fog of wet red rain suits. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m just not in the mood,” I said, pushing the sleeves of my suit jacket up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock on that Friday morning, he put on a surgical scrub suit and a paper mask and went into the Level 3 lab where the flasks were being kept warm. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing an old-fashioned type of suit and a straw hat. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

A new pack fresh out of the box, arranged by suit and in sequence from ace to king, can be said to be in its ordered state. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Never, ever go inside a fast-food restaurant barefoot or in a bathing suit. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

His pale cheeks bore two spots of color, and his suit jacket had a few snowflakes here and there, revealing that he was most likely returning home rather than heading out. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Beside her was a facsimile of his father, constructed from the morning suit he’d worn on that glorious day in Christchurch Cathedral fourteen years ago. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Wearing a nice suit and sucking up to reporters? How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I do not know if this name suits me,” he said, smiling. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s just come from work, still in her suit and pearls. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

His mother came down in a hired auto, in a fur suit like an arctic explorer’s, and saw him off in a twenty-five mile wind and a steady drove of ice floes like dirty sheep. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A coppersmith had fashioned her a suit of burnished rings to wear to war. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Commander," Martinez said, pausing at the exit, "you want me to bring back some space suits?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powers had been up since two AM, undergoing medical tests, scarfing down a huge breakfast, and cramming himself into his uncomfortable, pressurized flight suit. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The jacket of his brown suit, the one he’d worn to my graduation, hung over him—too much of Baba had melted away to fill it any­more. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Though I had neither means nor reason to keep a horse, I knew good from bad, and nothing I saw here came close to suiting my needs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You did not need a suit when you were surrounded by barbed wire. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It would have suited her better had Briony wept and allowed herself to be comforted on the silk chaise longue in the drawing room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

No one knows who the magic belongs to, but it’s stayed all these years, so I’m invisible whenever I’m on Water Island too, and that suits me just fine. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu liked to watch Clinton on television, in her square trouser suits, her face a mask of resolve, her prettiness disguised, because that was the only way to convince the world that she was able. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Only the reinforced ribbing in her suit prevented Holly’s leg bones from shattering. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He had worn a dry suit and he had managed to fix a rope to guide him through. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Air is notoriously uncooperative when it comes to giant, gaping holes in your EVA suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking around, the only thing I see that can hold an atmosphere is the EVA suit itself. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got to my apartment, I took off my suit and fell asleep. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I’m wearing a suit and a tie and I shook her hand. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“That shirt suits you. Brings out the color of your eyes.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the cot next to him are the suit and tie he is to wear to court for the start of his trial. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

They thought that Polly’s frock and Digory’s Norfolk suit and the Cabby’s bowler hat were as much parts of them as their own fur and feathers. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He wore an expensive brown silk suit like the guys on Wall Street wear, but you’d never mistake this dude for a broker. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She wore a turquoise sweat suit, the sleeves and legs cut off, threads hanging like a blue-green spiderweb. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

After he woke up, ate breakfast, and showered, he put on an expensive new suit. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He wore a pin-striped suit, which must have used enough material to make a tent. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Evidence Against Him or Suspicious Circumstances: None, except that weapon used might be said to suit his temperament. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

One screen has the words Helmet Cam written at the top and shows agents in gray suits raiding a haunted house. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The only shelter was provided by the suits of medieval armor punctuating the walls. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

We ate on in rather tense silence, I wondering why he was still so extremely sensitive about the suit, when he had found a place where he could stay. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The shoes were not my first choice,” he told Cora, “but the dress suits you.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And she said, ‘What does this look like? A pant suit?’ The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped out into the hall to go to the fountain and standing there in business suits were Jack and Jimmy Baptiste. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything okay with you, young man?” the man in the gray suit asked. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“And don’t forget to pick up Pop’s suits!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the tall iron railing that separated Meeters from the Met, and Greeters from the Gret, Chacko, beaming, bursting through his suit and sideways tie, bowed to his new daughter and ex-wife. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be a cinch to seal it with the suit's patch kit, but now that I think about it, that's a bad idea. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I’ve packed my black suit, and Anne will meet me for the funeral in two days so I have someone to hold my hand. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“It is a pleasure to see you too, Hector,” the man in the grey suit says, closing the door quietly behind him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Downtown, white people wore suits and white shirts to jobs in offices and stores. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Before daybreak next morning he got out his biggest handkerchief and in it he placed his toothbrush, his money, his soap, his comb and brush, a clean suit of underwear, and his pocket compass. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Men walk around in shiny suits, and many of them talk on cell phones. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

If my suit is successful, I shall send for you so that you may become reacquainted with her. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He wore a tan suit over a royal blue shirt and striped tie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I walked through Arnold’s front door and a lady in a suit and too much red lipstick jumped up from the couch. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fit her better than the suits she usually wears. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But after she leaves and I see the dark suit hanging on the closet door, I piece it all together. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

On the threshold, in a white acetate-satin sailor suit, and with a round white cap rakishly tilted over her left: ear, stood Lenina. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the open door I could see the man who had given us the papers to sign, but his very dark suit and very white shirt frightened me away. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had bought in Cairo a small valise, just big enough to carry one suit, shirt, a pair of underwear sets and a pair of shoes into Arabia. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the gray suit pulled his hands from the knobs. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I keep her counsel and will do so as long as it suits me.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Hildy came along in a mud-colored brown suit and a black sailor skewered on to her ratted brassy pompadour with an evil-looking hatpin. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think that green plastic stuff—the suit, the tent, the wagon cover—is something that stops radiation. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the overwhelming number of people who suffer an injury due to the negligence of a doctor never file a malpractice suit at all. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A giant picture of Chief Crowe in a business suit fills the back wall. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think Locke is suited for you.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The first was, I decided to put on a suit. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Yossarian ripped open the snaps of Snowden’s flak suit and heard himself scream wildly as Snowden’s insides slithered down to the floor in a soggy pile and just kept dripping out. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

William Henry had left the suit inside the garden fence at the Big House. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke to an audience of about fifteen in a quick, nervous style that suited the unornamented old lecture hall in which we were seated. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Left the Point to become a prosecuting attorney, to which he is well suited. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers trailed along the paint-spattered surface as he looked for a spot that suited him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sweating in his dark suit the way the white men had stained their white uniforms, but his face gleamed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What sort of flying motorcars do you have?” asked a pubescent boy named Horace, who wore a dark suit that made him look like an apprentice undertaker. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He wore his eyeglasses inside his space suit, and that made it particularly difficult to see. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He once wore a suit when we went bowling. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“You might as well keep my clothes on. They suit you.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

These were the space suit’s main gloves, and they were made of heavy rubber. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also hung a beach towel around my neck or wore an alligator shirt over my suit. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The new liturgy is suited especially to those who live in the secular city, alone in their faith for most of the week. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a three-piece suit with a carnation on his lapel, and looked around at the company confidently, as if at friends. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my bespoke suit, my checked shirt, I smoked my medium-fat cigar until the fire in my blood subsided. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“What about this one? The color will really suit you, Dimple.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His long chin faded off into a thin, apologetic beard, but his suit was a jaunty yellow that seemed to glow a little in the fading light. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead her eyes moved to the suit coat, to the gleaming hair, to the striped trousers, as she tried to figure out what had happened to him these past few months. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Before leaving for the university, I decided to outfit myself in a proper suit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother crossed her forehead and I followed suit. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore blackframed glasses and was dressed in dapper city clothes: a linen suit and striped shirt. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. March was very busy trying to finish a letter, which must go at once, and Hannah had the grumps, for being up late didn’t suit her. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for him to finish asking these three guys in suits to help our basketball team. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The front door of the Emporium slammed shut with a wha- pop! and out came an enormous man in a gray suit. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Millie is a lavender cotton ball in her matching sweat suit, socks, and headband. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They became trapped in rush- hour traffic again, surrounded by half-asleep yuppies in suits who were sucking coffee from foam cups and listening to traffic reports and easy rock and roll. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suit was only part of my new identity. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She wore a jade-green bathing suit and matching jade earrings. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps we should go into one of the treatment salons. We have dozens. Anything that suits your fancy. It would be more appropriate to inspect her in one of those." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He was waiting at the bottom of the stairs, and was now himself dressed in a black suit, similar to Shadow’s. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He shook his head—not an army uniform, but a brand-new three-piece suit, his paycheck from his office job tucked in his coat pocket. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was leaning against the building with his feet levitating in the air, his leopard-skin warm-up suit and black hair whipping around in the wind. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

That suits me just fine, gives me a reason to drag around my beat-up volumes of Langston Hughes and Claude McKay. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were balconies on all four sides, and everywhere were mannequins clad in outlandish garbs—feather suits, and dresses made of smoke and fog and glass. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You know, I think you’re actually looking forward to Abelman’s libel suit. You actually want to see me ruined, even if you go down with me.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked to wear a well-worn thrift - shop leather aviator jacket and black jeans, otherwise, smart dark suits tailored to make her look leaner than she was. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new suit imparted a newness to me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horrified, Esteban watched the entire contents of the goblet spill onto his only suit before the amused glances of the occupants of the adjoining tables. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy happened to glance at the sergeant, checking his suit instinctively, and she saw that he had a tear across his hip. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the photograph, he is wearing a dark suit and tie and has a solemn expression on his face. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Only the thought of the possible catastrophes that might befall such an expedition, and of sustaining damage to my travelling suit, persuaded me to content myself with sitting here on this bench. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Men in suits and ties hovered in the lobby, eyeing me suspiciously as I walked into the visitation room at a little past nine. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Not just any game,” exclaimed the gentleman in the tweed suit and thick spectacles. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He believed that if the Koreans were honest about where they came from and were willing to confront those aspects of their heritage that did not suit the aviation world, they could change. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

You’d see a classmate who normally dressed in ratty jeans and an untucked shirt crossing campus in a pin-striped suit and understand that he or she was destined for a Manhattan skyscraper. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I extended the letter to him, pushing it against his nylon track suit jacket. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As the newsreel cameras whirred, Moch, dripping wet and bare chested, held one of the cup’s handles and Burke, in a suit and tie, held the other. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was tall, six foot five at least, and seemed too large for the suit he wore; a large portion of each shirt cuff showed; the coat bunched at the armpits. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wore a flamingo pink shirt, a navy blue suit, a camel overcoat with gleaming leather buttons. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Is something wrong?” the man in the grey suit asks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Despite the dry suit, he had long ago felt the chill of the water and knew that he had to find his way onto dry land soon. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture the scene: the drunken old father, in a three-piece suit, swishing his Scotch or whatever it was he drank around in the glass. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The satin lapels of the tuxedo were threadbare but who would look at that when the suit fitted him so beautifully and the crease in his trousers was so perfect? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After quite a struggle and a tug of war with a balky zipper, we finally got the suits on, and our helmets and gloves locked in place. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit sitting in the stage-left box does not applaud. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My physical labor just meant the suit didn't have to heat itself as much. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered which of us had revised the past to suit the lives we were living now. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, we’ve got the intro singing number, the evening gown, talent, bathing suit, interview, followed by a final dance number, and then the crowning. It all comes down to the dance number,” Shanti said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It was just stuff exploding and a guy in a red suit,” Kenny said. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Catelyn had ordered garments sewn to her measure, handsome gowns to suit her birth and sex, yet still she preferred to dress in oddments of mail and boiled leather, a swordbelt cinched around her waist. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He lived in a modest bungalow, and wore an old faded suit that could have used a visit to the dry cleaners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawyers for German insurance giant Allianz Global Investors, Lloyd’s of London, and several other reinsurers filed suit in a London court against the Korean National Insurance Corporation. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Flowers, candles, beads, pretty stones, blown-glass figurines of birds and deer, in fact, anything beautiful, seemed to suit the lovely goddess. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be sure, the newcomers accepted the practicality of deerskin robes as opposed to, say, fitted British suits. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I finished my run, I pulled off my visor and began removing my haptic suit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I could feel the warmth it gave off even through my suit's gloves. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hagrid was sitting at one of the other staff tables; he was back in his horrible hairy brown suit and gazing up at the top table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But one night, desperate to practice our steps with the gentler sex, we put on our suits, stole out of our dormitory, and made it to the dance-hall. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dare was dressed in a white linen suit. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He came back to walk alongside me, where he took purposeful strides forward in his sky blue suit and polka-dot red tie. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Kelp was the first casualty, a titanium-tipped dart puncturing the neck of his suit. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

As if they’d twirl in circles, arm in arm, with Lovey catching a boy’s eyes for a second on every revolution and Cora following suit. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a black tie and his old blue seaman’s suit. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the Englishman was a big American in a loud suit—possibly a commercial traveller. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had dyed his hair pale yellow and was wearing a blue checked suit. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man wore a business suit, necktie and all. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very neatly dressed in a little black suit with a French grey shirt, the smooth waves of her dark head were neat and unruffled. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was low beneath the roar of the flame, but the man in the gray suit seemed to hear him fine. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He became the organizer of a group called CRUCIAL, which ultimately entered the desegregation suit as an intervenor and finally brought it into the courtroom after eleven years. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would have suited Briony, for the morning was slipping away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I know I shouldn’t, but I glance down at my black sandals and my red suit stretched over my round belly. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit stands alone, unnoticed, in the lobby for some time. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was still wearing his plastic suit, though without the helmet. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Except where you came from before you got here, that you like suits and jewelry, and that you was born with that face.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had bought more fancy clothes from the colored emporium, she noted with pleasure, a dark suit that fit him well. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A fruit vendor dressed up in a big apple suit. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Unimportant. We shall conquer them when it suits us. And if we did not, what difference would it make? We can shut them out of existence. Oceania is the world.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He looked like he’d just had a bath and a shave, and he was wearing an expensive black suit. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato were wearing their gangster suits. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She had frequently thought—especially since his father’s marriage with Miss Taylor—that if she were to marry, he was the very person to suit her in age, character and condition. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I cast a sly look to the girl standing next to me, dressed in a skirt suit, her young face caked with enough makeup to age her well beyond her years. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It’s probably the first and last suit anyone will ever buy me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Nothing suited her better than to wait until the milk bucket was nearly full, then kick it over with a back hoof. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Unable to afford the suit's matching top, she's been reduced to waddling the streets much like two women fused together in some sort of cruel experiment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

His silk suit melted into full Greek battle armor. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Oksi sat back on her heels and screamed without letup while he changed into the new suit he had made from the hide of a road-killed deer. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When I opened my eyes, Charon’s creamy Italian suit had been replaced by a long black robe. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Thomas finally followed suit, Newt right beside him; everyone huddled against the far wall, staring at the window. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“In the suit and tie. He came straight from the office.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Ducking your head, you put your arms through the same zipper opening, and out through the arms of the suit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red crashed through the underbrush, his boots much better suited for tramping through the weeds than my saddle shoes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The principal players, meantime, rehearsed Hamlet endlessly, employing a slightly different version each day, as Mr. Shakespeare deleted or added passages to suit the fancy of the master of revels. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

At a Salvation Army outlet in Scranton, not far from the bus station, I went looking for a suit. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Inside is a casual black suit and an ocean blue shirt. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

At that cue, Zora in her rubber suit with the flashing green sequin scales would tumble into the tank. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I barrel into the smell of pipe tobacco and the scratch of his tweed suit. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Standing next to the stag is a man in a dark suit. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Cray-Cray’s security cart was parked in the footpath on the far side of the quad, and he rushed over to greet the man in a suit climbing out of the helicopter. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my suit jacket off the back of the headrest. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne m4nagdre, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your Grace,” he said, “I fear your eunuchs are ill suited for the tasks you set them.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The good Captains Morse and Farrar would just have to wait till it suited me for this last message to be delivered. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks very nice, dressed in the suit and sweater that have always belonged to him. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the den, Mom is sitting at the desk, doing her best to ignore the suit woman. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Qotho screamed taunts at him, calling him a craven, a milk man, a eunuch in an iron suit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I—I never meant—” To Zane’s surprise, the man in the gray suit chuckled. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Hoisted into the air by his ankle, Harry hit a suit of armor and replicas burst out of it like white-hot bodies, filling the cramped space. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Theo gives him a suit, but it’s not just about appearances. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Their waiter stops at their table and converses briefly with Widget, paying no notice to the man in the grey suit. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The next few years were kept lean by the suing, and the drain stopped only when he lost the suit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re Mr. Tuck, I suppose,” said the man in the yellow suit. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life in Clarkston was simple, and few from the outside world paid the town much attention, which suited the residents of Clarkston just fine. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Most of the men were wearing suits and ties. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in a dark suit and a gray tie stands at the entrance to my room. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then I saw Lewis's suit hanging right where it belonged. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clutched Peach’s blue suit in my fist and lunged for Dismay. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By noon they’d be lined up in skeins outside the building, all kinds of people, people holding bags and children, people in suits, in smocks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Craig, too, was in a suit and prepared to play his own song. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The stranger had rumpled gray hair and an anxious expression, and was wearing a strange mixture of clothes; a pinstriped suit, a scarlet tie, a long black cloak, and pointed purple boots. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In his, Martin was wearing a suit that looked too big for him, and was staring straight into the camera, looking quite serious. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Weasley marched Harry across the short stretch of pavement toward the first of two old-fashioned dark green cars, each of which was driven by a furtive-looking wizard wearing a suit of emerald velvet. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He would be wearing his space suit while holding Ebola in his gloved hand, holding some kind of liquid tainted with Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in her tan gabardine teaching suit with black blouse, she was off to school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same day, the school board of Plano, a predominantly white suburb outside Dallas, announced that it was filing suit to seek an injunction preventing Carter from continuing in the playoffs the next night. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a wardrobe full of well-cut but nondescript black suits. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit shrugs, then lifts the bottle of wine from the table to refill his own glass. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Traynor himself followed the FBI's dress code; he was sporting a white shirt and dark suit. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Finestein has taken to wearing fitted red suits and jaunty pillbox hats trimmed with matching cherries. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The deer for my suit did not come easily. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are men mingled with them, a lot of men, but in their dark uniforms or suits, so similar to one another, they form only a kind of background. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It remains classified as a Level 4 hot agent, and if you want to shake hands with it, you had better be wearing a space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A sweater suit for a seven months’ old baby.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I promise to do my best, and we get out of there with a ticket to pick up the suit next week. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The heavy padding of Watney's suit saved him from many broken bones. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night she wore a dark gabardine suit and a silk blouse, the top two or three buttons undone. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How does that suit you, Irela, to listen to the radio?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“She’s wearing a bathing suit. Everyone looks half naked in a bathing suit.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I shake Caesar's outstretched hand, and he has the good grace not to immediately wipe his off on his suit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The suit might even melt, and I wasn’t eager to find out. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sighed sometimes, watching Barack pull the same dark suit out of his closet and head off to work without even needing a comb. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He had bathing suits he had bought when long skirts and black stockings and head bandanas were in style. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men moved tables and chairs about to better suit their group of nearly a dozen people. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Matt could see the buried tomb in his mind’s eye—the broken wineglasses, El Patron’s portrait staring up from the coffin, the bodyguards laid out in their dark suits. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Gievers developed a list of the individuals most responsible and filed a federal civil rights suit against them. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mention that there would be anyone else in the suit. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A short guy wearing what I thought was a flight suit came over to us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The father stood very rigid and quaint in a double-breasted suit with padded shoulders that were much too tight for him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He never seemed comfortable wearing that suit, and by the time we’d reach the car, he usually had the tie undone, and his jacket was ready to be handed over to Mrs. Baxter. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“The hours are not great, but suit a certain character.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was Easter and I was wearing a brand- new white suit. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At two o'clock Gatsby put on his bathing suit and left word with the butler that if any one phoned word was to be brought to him at the pool. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Both wore rumpled suits and stuck out their tongues, but only one displayed true genius in such films as Booty and the Beast and The Three Stooges Meet Hercules. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was coarse- woven and simply made, without so much as a single bow for trimming, but it was certainly far more suited to the menial work she had to do in it. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

More followed until almost a dozen were kneeling with the small man in his damp suit. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, a man in a black suit arrived at the house carrying a brief-case, and he held a long conversation with my grandmother in the living-room. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

His shoes were a shiny orange, and he had on a citified straw hat, a light-blue suit, and a cat’s-head stickpin in his tie. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” he said agreeably, cool as a priest in his dark suit and ascetic spectacles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They wore shiny, textured gray-blue suits and wide ties and sported long sideburns and slightly too large brown- tinted polarizing glasses. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his dark suit out of the clothespress and laid it over the back of a chair, and he put a white shirt and a black tie on the seat of the chair. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He's got my blanket carefully folded into a suit box with the controller all reassembled, set to take to the lab in the morning. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is wearing a gray three- piece suit and a silk striped bow tie, and he walks with a black cane. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Neither of them suited her and although he had once asked, she had never said. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A shimmery deep blue would suit her well, she thought. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Jessie switched into her bathing suit, packed up her beach bag, and said a quick goodbye to her mother as the Moriartys pulled into the driveway. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

They were better suited to improvisation, for they had been invented for just this purpose—to pass the hours in creative fun when the weather closed in. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt quiet and at peace with himself when he was padding around a hot zone in a space suit, carrying a rack of test tubes that held an unknown deadly agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We decided that we would at least appear to be working, but what work we did would be at a pace that suited us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fitted himself for a new blue flannel suit, and a rich gray Homburg which balanced oddly atop his gaunt head. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has on the same suit he had on earlier in the day, although that feels like last year. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Eliza, I want you be my partner. There’s no one better suited to it, no one I can trust. Or who will put up with me.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stocking seams were straight, my black shoes cracked, but polished, and my red wool suit flamboyant as my plans. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She decided that he looked very impressive in his expensively tailored double-breasted gray suit. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His enigmatic beauty seemed better suited for dim Gothic chambers and the silence of ruined castles, aristocracy that had cracked around the edges, clothed itself in ivy, and crawled back into the wilderness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I have a patch kit on my EVA suit, of course. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two suits of armor with bad attitudes were about to kill him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Though, her signature petals were still represented by the oversized white daisies covering her neon pink bathing suit. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His smile is nice, really nice, but I don’t have time for boys in suits with nice smiles. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In Immie’s suit, she dove under the waves and came up feeling miraculously happy. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Inside the cauldron, men are packed together, throwing off immigrant costumes, putting on suits. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Instead people, like my naïve Mutter, insisted I was suited for bakery work. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Several red-necked white men in safari suits and fatigues, guns drawn, paced briskly about the entrance gate, shouting orders and supervising the roundup. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

You wear an Armani suit and sign up for a subscription wine service. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Eril-Fane dismounted and another warrior followed suit: a tall, straight woman who stood like a shadow to him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I felt like a little boy in his father's suit, a fraud everyone could see through. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

If they did, the suit would still be heard and decided in Alabama, but the judges would represent the United States government, not the state of Alabama or the city of Montgomery. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Silky forest green cuffs peeked out from the sleeves of her burgundy suit. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“She is my daughter,” a voice with a smooth-flowing accent rang out from the top floor, where Mrs. Laroux, Thorn’s mother, stood in a sharply cut powder-pink suit and a luxurious black cloak. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had loose and floppy limbs and was dressed in a three-piece black suit with a bright red tie. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“I remember when she came to visit us in Boston. She was dressed in a pink romper suit and her hair stuck up straight off her head. Johnny wasn’t born till three weeks later.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Keller’s wearing a sharp suit, plus a tie with hammers on it. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Joseph knew that, even though he was wearing a nineteenth- century velvet suit, had a broken watch on his wrist, and had just eaten a huge meal in an ancient kitchen. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I’ll call Sherry and ask her to find something else. That’s not why I moved all the way from Idaho, to be a suit working for suits. I couldn’t survive it.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He begins to move through the jungle, and although I know he’s trying hard to be quiet, this has never been his strong suit, even when he had two sound legs. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

So he hired his first home care worker—a theology student named Tony—who helped him in and out of the pool, and in and out of his bathing suit. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how many forty- and fifty-year-old errand boys went down the Hill dressed like ambassadors in black suits and white collars, to downtown jobs “in government,” “in finance,” or “in law.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wore smart suits; I drove a colossal Oldsmobile, and I knew my way around the back alleys of the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men wore tailored suits and large, expensive-looking silver watches, and over their suits they wore fine long raincoats that dripped water onto the floor. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

White then enlisted a stocky, garrulous, and blond-haired former Texas Ranger who, according to a superior, was best suited for situations “where there is any element of danger.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I was surprised to see my own father, almost unrecognizable in a dark suit, standing near Aaron and Rocco. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The thing that separated the human hand from Nature was the space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He owned just the one suit, and one beautiful blue tie, and he liked them as much as she liked her purple coat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Neeley wore the black suit he got for his father’s funeral. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother warned her, “Don’t mess with that boy, his eyes green, his army suit green, and his car green. You can’t trust him.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I beg Walter for extra hours of work so I can afford a bathing suit. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can tear off a length of tape from your ankle and use it to patch a hole in your suit,” she said. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you need a suit or dress for your child you can go to her. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in a baggy pea-green suit and had his face buried in Aunt Florentine’s old neck. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He and Tessie were stationed at Pearl Harbor, where they lived in austere marital housing and where my mother, at twenty-five, got a terrible sunburn and was never seen in a bathing suit again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She would come walking down an aisle of rose petals, wearing a white rayon suit with frog closings that Mabelee was sewing for her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would wave at the general, perpetually dressed in his shiny over­pressed gray suit, and he would wave back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing the dark suit, the dark skullcap, the white shirt open at the collar, and the fringes showing below his jacket. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Candor man wears a black suit with a white tie— Candor standard uniform. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dimming hurries in then, wearing a brand-new navy blue suit, a fresh white shirt, and a red vest and tie. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She was still in her bathing suit, but she wore her sea-green running shoes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Better, if she’s roamed and found a husband somewhere else: none of our own will suit her, though many come to court her, and those the best.’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while he said, “That suits me fine. I’ve always liked this view.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had on jeans and a T-shirt, my usual outfit, and Horace wore his customary black suit. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It looks like something out of a retirement home, but oddly enough, it suits her. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The men wore dull gray or black suits, white shirts, and striped ties, more like men anywhere. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Without warning, the man in the grey suit tosses his cane at the boy. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And Tristran Thorn in crimson and canary was not the same man that Tristran Thorn in his overcoat and Sunday suit had been. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A guy in a business suit turned around. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He bought himself a brand-new single-breasted suit of brown worsted for this occasion, with a matching brown vest and a brown and yellow- flowered silk tie. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using only her left hand, her good hand, she unplugged her suit from the air hose. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most important, I had to figure out a way to get the suit and cart without being seen, and shot. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone in the Great Hall followed suit. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The human, Butler, was strapping on a medieval suit of armor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They were wearing bright-red space suits, complete with helmets and goggles—at least they looked like space suits—and they were working in complete silence. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

They planned events featuring Henrietta Lacks look-alikes —a few Turner Station women who’d style their hair like Henrietta’s and wear suits identical to the one she wore in her iconic photo. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

"Salloreon, as it please my lord. If the King's Hand will permit, I should be most honored to forge him a suit of armor suitable to his House and high office." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Baird wore his standard fare, a black suit and white shirt he got from a department store. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My avatar was now dressed in a suit of chainmail armor, and my hands were held out in front of my body, as though I were clutching a set of reins. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Ooh, suit options! We have to pick out the best ones!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I figured since I was now working at a funeral home, a suit would be a better look than jeans and Nikes. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Now her main suit glove was covered with blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not brought my bathing suit, so I had to sit by the pool while the others swam. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kids funneled from their cars to the school, ignoring the men in black suits and red ties who stood at even intervals along the school’s roof. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Wearing a dark evening suit and a top hat, he looked all the part of a gentleman. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It had been a while since I came home and went right to my room, took my suit off, brushed my teeth, washed my face, turned the lights off, and went straight to bed. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was wearing sunglasses and—in contrast to the shapeless, tweedy rags he generally wore—a sharp and very new Italian suit. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And though Mama wasn’t the kind to ask for things, I’d heard her tell Queenie she was go’n see if her Pa would let her swap our mismatched parlor furniture for Granny’s nice parlor suit. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Finally the decon team, still wearing space suits, went back inside the building and collected the spore samples. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it didn’t suit her for her daddy to marry again, why, he just wasn’t going to. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Marshall consolidated the Moton students’ suit with four others around the country into the US Supreme Court case Brown v. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The woman approaching is well dressed, neat blond hair and an expensive-looking suit. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Were you surrounded by suits, like these people streaming toward the train? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were freshly showered and shaven, cocky in their Sunday suits but uneasy, too, as if they were about to go to court. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Gray suit, gray hair, gray lips, and gray eyes. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Now I have bad news. Your fantastic new suit is going to get dirty. You can blame your cousin for it.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was probably avoiding a lovesick swain, not wealthy enough or ancient enough to suit her. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here I am in my zoot suit, thinking how country everybody looks compared to me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the level was too near the theoretical limit of what the suit could handle for him to risk it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A month in the Slammer while the doctors hovered over you in space suits drawing samples of your blood, just waiting for you to crash. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was still not dark enough for Quentin to start, not yet dark enough to suit Miss Coldfield at least, even discounting the twelve miles out there and the twelve miles back. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

We color in Grace’s movie star coloring books, which show the movie stars in different outfits, doing different things: walking their dogs, going sailing in sailor suits, swirling around in evening dresses at parties. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the reporter jotted down Roy’s words, the door swung open, and there stood Mr. Eberhardt—shaved, showered, and neatly dressed in one of his gray suits. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had noticed him earlier, in his three-piece wool suit, staring at her as they waited on the tarmac. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I looked in the crate—a radiation suit if ever I've seen one. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a formal black suit, so I almost didn’t recognize him, a deep purple tie and violet dress shirt, his curly dark hair carefully combed. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wore a gray suit and the new purple tie that Mom bought him. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

In Puerto Rico when Mami had laid out the same general rules, I’d found ways of, if not completely ignoring them, at least bending them to suit my curiosity. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Cutting the arm off the suit was easy; so was cutting along its length to make a rectangle. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Sunny's father, Mr. Lancaster, still dressed up in a suit, but with sunglasses on. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Okay, suit yourself. The guy is the real deal. If you knew him, you’d completely agree.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

On the morning we left for the Port-au-Prince airport, on our way to Havana via Miami, Farmer was in his suit. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Through his mask, Chandresh sees only the still grey suit, the hovering top hat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And on top she is wearing a Westernized suit jacket, awkwardly stylish on my mother’s small body, with its padded shoulders, wide lapels, and oversize cloth buttons. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They finally brought Walter into the courtroom wearing the black suit and white shirt I'd brought him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sass led me to the government office, where there was an official wearing a suit, shirt, tie, and jacket. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Here,” said Harry, and they placed him in a niche where a suit of armor had stood earlier. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s not about some great white hetero hero who loves a woman he needs to save or teams up with a lesser-powered woman in a skintight suit. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He gave Charles and me his old suits by the armload; he was taller than Charles, and thinner than both of us, and we would have them altered by a tailor in town. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Celia was fussing with the suit Matt had worn to the birthday party long ago. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know it wasn’t your fault. It was the bad men’s fault. The ones who wear the funny green suits.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Renly had gifted him with a rainbow cloak and a suit of blood red armor, and named him one of his seven. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder why he’s looking at me with such hostility until I remember I’m wearing an evening suit. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The part that closes her neckline snap while waiting for the trolley; and brushes lint from his blue serge suit when they come out of the movie house into the sunlight. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two men in dark suits, with dark hair and shiny black shoes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He went to a doll’s shop, where they had things which were the right size for him, and outfitted himself completely, with new luggage, suits, shirts, and accessories. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Later in the service, when Pastor Gideon would leap out in his sharp-shouldered suit and pointy shoes, and say, “Our God is not a poor God, amen? It is our portion to prosper, amen?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit stands, brushing invisible dust from his sleeve. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Beside the entrance, the king's armor stood sentry; a suit of forest-green plate, its fittings chased with gold, the helm crowned by a great rack of golden antlers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was not made easier by the fact that he was shuffling around in his space suit the whole time. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its initial radioactive products were suited best for physics research, but that was only a start. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She wore a yellow knit suit with matching buttons and short white cotton gloves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

From them emerged men in suits, in chapans and caracul hats, women in hijabs, children with neatly combed hair. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The patrons are mostly businessmen from Korea, but there are others, some whites, and then some young Korean-Americans dressed in conservative suits, speaking perfect English, red-faced, drunk. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On any other occasion the sight of him in his tailored black suit and stovepipe hat would have been a cause of bewilderment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When Skelton appeared on the cover of Look magazine in a silver astronaut’s flight suit in 1960, it was the first time that people began talking publicly about women astronauts. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tidings would be wearing his suit and standing just inside the big front doors of the funeral home. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Minerwa factory, says Herr Braun, our director, sweating in his suit while standing on a crate, is a system of rules and regulations, where we, the workers, will be valued. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a man’s suit, a man’s felt hat on her head. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here we have another kind of legacy, one that turns out to be perfectly suited for twenty-first-century tasks. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Now that I'm out of the suit, I can turn around and get a look. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just that in the past, his lies tended to suit me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wanted a modern partnership that suited us both. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit signs papers and responds to the headmistress’s questions with answers she does not entirely follow, but she does not protest the transaction. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There are men in suits looking in the door of the stable of Finn the Horse and there must be something wrong because you never see men with suits in the lane. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But the fisherman stares at these men’s city suits, their clean hands, and their mouths, which exaggerate incomprehensible syllables. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the people in Central Park learned that one of the toy sailboats was being steered by a mouse in a sailor suit, they all came running. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Having smooth skin also helped make sure my haptic suit fit snugly. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We found Wojek, the kind gentile who had sold my father's suits, and we connected with a former neighbor on Przemyslowa Street. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

So it’s almost entertaining to see Caesar Flickerman, the eternal host of the Hunger Games, with his painted face and sparkly suit, preparing to give an interview. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His clothes and haircut—Mao suits and a short military trim with no sideburns— were the same as his grandfather’s when he seized control of North Korea in 1945. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Hazel noticed the silver skull ring on his finger, then the strange fabric of his suit. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her husband, no longer a stooped old man but a handsome young gentleman, walked toward her wearing a dapper suit and holding a single pale pink rose. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

That left me two space suits to work with. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore tortoiseshell shades and a silk Italian suit that matched his hair. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was supposed to be sealed inside a can, but some might have leaked out and might have been blown into our suits by the oxygen fan. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suits that I wore, the finest, I bought hot for about thirty- five to fifty dollars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only way to track us now is that one small button inside her suit. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She had pull with the police department, so the men in their flashy suits and fleshy scars sat with churchlike decorum and waited to ask favors from her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from their helmets sad encumbrances and the difficulty of breathing, they had to be dressed in their suits by kind and careful aasatapls. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later the front door opened nervously, and Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold-colored tie hurried in. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She worked with a dial for several minutes before she got it to the place that suited her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the staging room, they began to suit her up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had on a faded green track suit top and looked about a stone heavier than when I’d last seen him. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It suited him messy, sweeping over his thick eyebrows, and made him look mischievous and interesting. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Taryn flounced over in her bright yellow bathing suit to where Ivy’s mom was trying to fit a pair of goggles over Ivy’s head of thick hair. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then he ran forward down the road, very clumsy in his plastic suit, waving his arms. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I was about to send out a search party. I’ve laid your suit on the bed.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the chores I did for the regent, the one I enjoyed most was pressing his suits, a job in which I took great pride. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had on a stiff, turquoise-blue dress that suited her marvelously. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because they can think you look good in a bathing suit even when you don’t. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I knelt in the grass and organized a row of boxes that contained space suits, decontamination gear, and lights. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find Abuela sitting motionless on her wicker swing, wearing a worn bathing suit, her hair stuck haphazardly to her skull, her feet strangely lacerated. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We move through the Market Quartier, still busy with merchants selling wares better suited to the dark. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Derby, dressed in a red velvet suit, escorted his now very pregnant wife into the room. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the classroom, we did a lot of independent work, setting our own goals and moving at whatever speed best suited us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But whatever affectionate insult he offers is lost in the cloth of my suit as I circle him into my arms. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had already laid out clothes for him on the bed: a black suit, white shirt, black tie, white undershirt and underpants, black socks. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She slid the soft feet of her space suit into the boots and glanced at Johnson and caught his eye. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when my mind took that experience and added a spotlight and the fact that I was only wearing a bathing suit, I panicked. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was something about knowing who the important little people were, the forgotten ones who don’t wear suits, the mail- room clerk, the secretaries, the custodial staffs. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Do you like this shirt with this suit?” she asked him. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

It was well suited to my mood, full of dark humor, tragedy, and betrayal. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even in Sagan’s warm air, and the heat of the suit, my blood runs cold. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be the referee,” said a man in a bright green suit. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Devlin was dressed in a large pinstripe suit and an immaculate celluloid collar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I put more wood on the fire, as it was damp in spite of the flames, and went to bed in my underwear and suit. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But suppose, on the other hand, Mr. Loomis was trying to keep the suit for himself? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

On Sunday he got up early in the morning and took from the suitcase his serge suit. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“She said nothing for a moment. She stared at me, and then she smiled. ‘Suppose it suits me better to live here, what then?’ she said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Ms. Reyes, pick whichever chocolate suits your fancy,” he says. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ghosh offered to take the upper berth, climbing barefoot up the ladder, his suit carefully folded away, so that Ashoke had the window to himself. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the yellow suit folded his arms and rocked a little. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the times table between my ears: Four times thirteen is fifty-two, like four suits in a deck of cards. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Watching him stand there in his suit, I can picture him in a black-and-white Hollywood romantic comedy trading witty banter with his heroine. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a picture of my parents’ wedding night, Baba dashing in his black suit and my mother a smiling young princess in white. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He flashed on an image of his father in his clown suit just before that final party. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She had forgotten, too, about the man in the yellow suit, and now, thinking of him, she felt a surge of relief. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hate it when a suit is a really ugly color so you look completely dumb. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She followed suit, pouring herself a glass from a pitcher she laid down on a side table next to me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Some even bought suits exactly like Bruce Lee’s. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Pastor Johnson, in a suit, but this time, instead of a Bible, he held a sign up that said, rashad is absent again today, but GOD is never absent. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Dad came in and gave my suit a quick inspection. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d watched with dismay as Republicans in Congress followed suit, fighting Barack’s every effort to stanch the economic crisis, refusing to support measures that would cut taxes and save or create millions of jobs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Jack’s heroes were usually muscular, but this one was tall and very thin and wearing an actual suit and tie, like someone you might run into downtown. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I guess you can wear that suit,” Chapter Eleven said to me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The man was wearing a dark suit and a white shirt, with a navy-blue-and-ocher-striped tie. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then I changed into a new shirt, put my suit back on, and let myself out of the room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But Capricorn lay on his face with gravel clinging to his red suit, and never again would anyone tell him anything—about fire and smoke, about fear and death. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I walked up to the counter where the elderly lady librarian was handing some books to a fat man in a white linen suit. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

First thing I did was put on the inner lining of my EVA suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his only suit, the tuxedo and his derby hat and he looked very grand. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a suit as red as the church walls. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Often it was canned beets, which suited me just fine, as I thought they were horrid and we always had so much of them. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He tries to get a better look at the dark ash on his suit but it is already fading away. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So in a land which nature found suited to grass growing mixed with and under the shelter of sage, it is now proposed to eliminate the sage and create unbroken grassland. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Boreas, the North Wind, fell in love with her, but her father, Erechtheus, and the people of Athens, too, were opposed to his suit. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fawns followed suit, their hooves crushing the dried leaves as they bounded through the Wood. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and went “Woof! Woof!” but not doglike—it was tigerlike: powerful, scary and utterly suited to the situation. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Geoff Graham’s parents have a hot tub, so she wraps her bathing suit up in a towel. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then came a roar of flowing air, and her suit bloated up, fat and hard, and a whiff of dry air cleared away some tiny beads of sweat that had collected inside her faceplate. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wiped her eyes with her gym suit. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Sitting on one side of the table was a man in his late fifties, wearing a suit. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The men in suits on the roof weren’t doing a thing—so much for school security. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The Indian man in the brown suit smiled and offered Hassan his hand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The closets were full of suits, dozens of them perfectly aligned from lightest gray to darkest black. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Freak is all dressed up, too, he's wearing this tweedy new suit jacket that has patches on the elbows and Grim says all he needs is a pipe and he'll look like quite the professor. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, four men in suits bang away on typewriters and scratch with pencils. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In came Mr Wormwood in a loud check suit and a yellow tie. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I know I look out of place—Nathan’s wardrobe is more suited to a debate tournament than a Saturday-night house party. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Cady hadn’t so much as finished the thought, however, when the words of the man in the gray suit scampered into her head. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Dudes in suits seem excessive for a girl breaking curfew. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Juanga is wearing a suit one size too big and a skinny purple tie. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He didn’t need it anymore, for Mama had made him a new suit of clothes—a calico shirt, skin leggings, a set of blue broadcloth britches trimmed with red wool. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I took a scalding hot shower, worked over my face for the last time, and got dressed in my cheap suit. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I almost hadn’t brought it, but my mom insisted that you never know when you’re going to need a suit, and sure enough. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Next to him stood a tall grey-haired man in a white linen suit and a pale yellow tie. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Grandma Rose talks about how she was the first fifteen-year-old in her Baton Rouge neighborhood to wear a two-piece bathing suit. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Dad hates wearing suits” is what Grace would have said if she hadn’t been busy staring at the house. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Mother gave me the money to have my blue serge suit tailored, and I learned to fill out work cards, operate the money changer and punch transfers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, I was wishing that she were tucked away in a portable pocket, or that she’d also had an invisibility suit. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I look at myself in the mirror above the sink, and she is more visible here—the girl inside my Unity Valley suit. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The suit and the Phi Beta Kappa key helped in that regard. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In one final attempt, I press the comm-button in my suit. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hunt was fierce, a frown in a suit, with a client list that included most of America’s richest families. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit’s smile brightens considerably. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A young woman walks into the water wearing nothing but a small bright red bathing suit! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked Jeny to assemble teams of soldiers and civilian employees to be ready to move out with space suits in twenty-four hours. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among them were suits brought by beekeepers in several areas of New York State. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We were both dressed in dark suits, white shirts, and muted ties. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Having been told by one clockmaker he would not suit, Johnny walked in on two more and got the same answer. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilar suggests they go to an exhibit at the Frick Museum, so Lourdes wriggles into her Chanel suit, the gold-coin buttons already straining across her middle, and they take the subway to Manhattan. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marco pulls her to him in an emerald embrace, so close that no distinction remains between where his suit ends and her gown begins. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I ask: If I unzip my Unity Valley suit and let my happy person out, will she still be happy? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

This time, not being rushed, I was able to use a pole to leverage the table off Martinez's suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a pressurized, heavy- duty plastic space suit that meets government specifications for work with airborne hot agents. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I'm out of the airlock, this EVA suit will only last four minutes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we stepped into the foyer, we found Baba sitting by the wood-burning cast-iron stove with a short, balding Indian man dressed in a brown suit and red tie. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At Audrey’s wedding, seeing my brothers in their suits, those black uniforms, my rage turned to fear, of some predetermined loss, and I forgave Shawn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Two Eyes, in gray suits, leap from the opening double doors at the back. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaves her on the platform, and when she turns after him to see which way he went, the grey suit is nowhere to be found amongst the crowd. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Standing behind us was a guy who looked like a raptor in a leisure suit. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere around him stores were opening—suits, dresses, overalls, shirts, skirts, blouses, trousers, all made and ready to be worn. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

All right, he had a fine house and good suits, but somehow you just knew. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I put down the tools, take off the goggles, the mask, the plastic suit. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

What to wear, what to wear, I knew I couldn’t wear my suit. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even though it was a red zone, the car stopped, and a dark-haired woman in a tailored black suit popped out. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Franz followed suit a few seconds later, his claws clicking on the wooden steps as he raced downstairs to see why there was a commotion that he was not yet a part of. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He had to shout to be heard above the roar of air in their space suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are doing their job, wearing “demolish” like crisp business suits. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hagrid had honored the occasion by wearing his best, and horrible, hairy brown suit. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I’ll be in out of the rain and I’ll have a suit and shoes and a warm place to live and what more could a man want? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But she asks me to go with her for the bathing suit shoot. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

As we entered, a giant man with shaved blond hair, a business suit, and a holster with a gun in it walked in. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But how light the suit is, it feels as though I had nothing on but a shirt and underpants. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When May died, Ob came back to the trailer, got out of his good suit and into his regular clothes, then went and sat in the Chevy for the rest of the night. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Victoria is great at styling her hair and she promised she could style it to look like a rat’s nest to suit the character’s chaotic mind. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Come here, Matthew,” he said, taking off his suit jacket. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She attended the school career fair, where students wore awkward suits and serious expressions, and tried to look like adults worthy of real jobs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I mention it, because it is the living which I ought to have had. A most delightful place!—Excellent Parsonage House! It would have suited me in every respect.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

White men in the crispest, slickest suits—black and navy and tweed, some with loosened ties and coats unbuttoned or cast aside over chairs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s dressed in a suit and wearing a fake mustache as he presents as Langston Hughes. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then she got out of the hot tub and walked over to the pool in that gunmetal bathing suit. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was nothing here to help him—not his money, his car, his father’s reputation, his suit, or his shoes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a well-worn deck from his suit pocket, with Big Ben’s image on the back. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ultimately the judge threw Moore’s suit out of court, saying he had no case. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Neville suddenly let out a frightened squeak and broke into a run — he tripped, grabbed Ron around the waist, and the pair of them toppled right into a suit of armor. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Under all the sequins, it turned out that Pixie had on a proper bathing suit. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Johnson put on a surgical scrub suit and rubber gloves, and carried the box into the Level 3 staging area of the Ebola suite, where he opened the box, revealing a mass of foam peanuts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mendeleyev was said to have been inspired by the card game known as solitaire in North America and patience elsewhere, wherein cards are arranged by suit horizontally and by number vertically. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Wearing his blue Protestant suit, Lefty visited the local universities and colleges in person to inquire about the possibility of becoming a Greek instructor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Papa wore one of his new dark suits. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I did blow off my schedule every single day unless something suited me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The cabinets shook, and a suit of armor collapsed as the cat launched himself at me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In a white singlet and the trousers of his suit, he went down the short straight run of stairs in his stockinged feet carrying a pair of black brogues. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Before anyone else can object, I lock elbows with Voxy and the rest follow suit, until we form a human chain. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“This is even better than the suit of armor.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

"This essay suits the ideals of National Socialism," explains Herr Meins in a faltering voice. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even today, as late as now, I have a tendency to wince when I remember that I brought a dinner suit up to Les Amis with me. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He turns and heads out, a large suit greeting patients left and right in the ER. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was broad- shouldered, grave, and he wore a gray business suit. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were all kinds—jeans and flannel shirts, sneakers and work boots, suits and ties and shined shoes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The first day we met, Stella in her makeshift hazmat suit, the birthday dinner. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He is dressed in a dark-blue suit and a light-blue tie. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s gorgeous in a navy-blue suit and a tie that, upon closer inspection, is patterned with little yellow roses. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Next to me is Craig, gentlemanly in a little bow tie and suit jacket, bearing an earnest expression. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Usually these forums discuss such things as a storm and whether or not it is coming, how to make a spring suit, and how to enlarge my house without destroying the life in the tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found I was wishing Mr. Loomis would lend him the suit, though I could understand why he would not. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As soon as we got there, Michael changed from his suit to swim trunks and went sprinting into the ocean. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Uncle Vernon, perspiring slightly in his suit, opened the front door, peered up and down the street, then withdrew his head quickly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Why would watching a group of out-of-control young women in bathing suits competing in a canoe contest do this? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Josh is all dressed up in a suit like he’s going to church. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sign showed a woman in a light blue one-piece bathing suit, apparently grasping a towline from a speeding motorboat. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was a diver’s dry suit and it looked brand-new. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She wore dark glasses, a blue maternity suit, and she was pregnant with what would be her fourth child. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit stares at the boy without comment for some time. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

From the backseat, two policemen produce a frail-looking man in a beige suit with a perfect purple bruise around his left eye. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One son was in a cap and gown; the other son and the father were wearing shirts and ties, while the mother had on a striped suit and a floppy hat. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

What a way to begin fighting a libel suit. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After suiting up, I went out to the rover and dragged the solar cells off the roof. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mya looks around the room sadly while Camila twists her bag of suits dejectedly around her hand. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

This little speech sounded to me the way his suit looked: often used and unnaturally shiny. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t all official business, and that suited me just fine. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I am today. I was yesterday. Tomorrow—who knows? I have to judge what best suits me. I wasn’t going to miss this.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Did I really wear bathing suits, at the beach? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next customer comes in, and Roza shows her my clothes on purpose, going on and on about how perfectly suited they are to this woman's coloring, and makes the sale. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In fact, the man in the grey suit barely says a word. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“But the simile does not suit us, for you are no moth, and I am not a fire.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He also wears a suit, so I almost don't recognize him. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

O’Dell looked through the suits the owners had put out, shaking his head. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don't want to hold the case up while you convince this guy to wear a suit. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a blue suit and yellow tie, his hair close-cut, the sideburns slightly long as had become the style. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I reach inside, pull the smooth fabric from the briefcase and hold up what seems like a suit jacket to the light. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As her right arm came out of the suit, she saw that the sleeve of her scrub suit was dark wet and her inner glove was red. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jacket of his blue serge suit was open, revealing a heavy gold chain linked between his vest pockets as he moved toward me with a noiseless tread. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hoping she was hungry enough to eat on her own, Sam took a deer mouse out of the pocket of the rain-drenched suit. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

At the bottom, she ran into a man in a dark suit. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

After three weeks with my comrades I felt rejuvenated, and I was far more comfortable in court this time in a suit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they got ice cream, and were strolling in Harvard Square, licking cones, when several stout men in suits blocked their path. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If pictures of Hazleton workers wearing face masks and white suits wound up on the evening news, it could cause a panic. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few took the precaution of zipping into rubber suits before wiggling in, but most just wore street clothes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Averting his eyes from this unpleasant sight, Harry saw a gigantic, hairy brown suit and a very horrible yellow-and-orange tie hanging from the top of Hagrid’s wardrobe door. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a dark suit and a tie and a hat with a brim, even though it was Saturday and summertime. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Planning out the smallest details, from organizing Chandresh’s books for a new accountant to packing the suits in his flat, even down to the wedding bands on their fingers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Women shoppers with bundles and impatient men in straw hats and seersucker suits stood along the platform as they passed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came out soon in his black suit and his hard shiny shirt and collar. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

No girls are allowed to wear suits on account of the convicts. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in a dark suit stepped forward, taking charge. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I held the fake teeth out to Mom and nodded at her dark and drab suit. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It's unlikely it would puncture EVA suit material, but I'm not taking any chances. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though we’re all wearing red body armor, there are subtle differences between the suits. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is not a liturgy suited to my parents or grandparents as much as to me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hard physical labor in a space suit is murder. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was a tailor in Poland. I can make suits. Surely there are others who can make goods or provide services for money.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I put my suit back on and walked out. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Looking like a beggar evangelist in his torn black suit, he shuffled to an ash pile that had spilled from the cracked-open house and bent to gather a palm full of soot. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Lee, I sent our man Fritz over to kindle a fire. I thought going in there in the cold—” She looked at Mother with a frown that didn’t seem to suit her face at all. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of monkey was overpowering inside her space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Griswold used the cuff of his suit jacket to dab a bead of sweat from his temple. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

All smartly dressed men in three-piece suits and silk ascots, their hair slicked back and watch chains glinting. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The secretary helped him back and dusted off his suit. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were a few old men in pastel suits, limping, I think, on purpose. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

After all, Rab might have decided that Johnny’s legs and ears were better than his hands—and deliberately let him do the work that best suited him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His suit looked expensive and he wore cufflinks. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The crop was so severely damaged that farmers sought to bring suit against the state for negligence in not warning them that this might happen. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He’s a tall thirty-something Indian man in an impeccably tailored suit, roguishly handsome with a neatly trimmed beard, a steaming cup of tea, and a shiny Union Jack on his lapel. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My Sunday school dress was torn in three places, and Peach’s white shirt and blue suit pants were brown, heavy and sticky with mud. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have T-shirts and flannel shirts, some warm sweaters; a bathing suit, a pair of sneakers, a pair of Crocs, and a pair of boots. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She wore a light-tan suede suit, shoes to match and a mannish hat with a feather in the band, and she patted my face with gloved hands. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is dressed in the suit and tie we saw on the cot. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

That summer of 1940, in Lansing, I caught the Greyhound bus for Boston with my cardboard suitcase, and wearing my green suit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in suit and tie, he would come bearing Eid presents. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He turned slowly, his arms spread out so I could admire his new suit from all angles. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Dad’s wearing a suit and tie, but I can tell he’s at home because he’s holding Luke on his knee. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Sammy wore an old bathing suit of James’ over his diapers. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a three-piece wool suit and fiddled with a small rocket. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

That action, and a related suit against the ice cream parlor brought by Moore, sparked a six-year battle to integrate the parlor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Time to suit up and look for the trailer. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you didn’t have the image of our Dear President on the wall—dressed in his three-piece suit and clutching a flywhisk—you would pay a hefty price. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He holds his suit jacket with one hand and shields his eyes with the other. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like a hazmat suit, with a skirt instead of pants. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Colonel Johnson came in through Level 2 wearing a surgical scrub suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One look at his tailored suit and surgically perfected features and I know he’s from the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And if there had been sunlight just moments ago, it suited them now to have stars, so they did. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The araputanga tree is similar to red cedar and almost as light as cork, making it better suited for a light canoe. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

And who wanted to wear a suit made by an enemy? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his black suit and stovepipe hat, he didn’t just resemble Mr. Flux in this photo; he was Mr. Flux. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs they reach a black platform, where everything is endlessly dark save for a circus worker in a white suit who is guiding patrons inside. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Barack now traveled in sleek black SUVs provided by the government and was trailed by a team of suited, earpieced men and women with guns. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes working white men in their uniforms or their navy striped suits drove up and down the gravel road that ran alongside our yard, making the dust and small rocks grind under their wheels. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mary Alice and I followed when she went to answer it, opening to a stringy young guy in a seersucker suit. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He gave one to the middle-aged woman in oversized glasses and a plaid pant suit who was sitting beside him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom said, grabbing Finkle by the lapels of his suit, “and let my son take his shot.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

This weekend his white beard is cropped close to his face, and he is wearing a linen safari suit. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

"You the one nearly got caught in the middle of that thing today? Yeah, didn't recognize you in the Sunday suit." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his wife and the director posed for the camera, then the Marshalls came away, accompanied by the suited young men with the umbrellas. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"I don't need you to tell me that. I'll be along—when it suits me." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a brown corduroy suit with leather elbow patches and carried a worn, overstuffed briefcase. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of cities in the United States are now following suit, pledging to use 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 or sooner. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He was still wearing the same wrinkled black suit, which now looked like something from a trash barrel; he couldn’t even find time to buy a new one, despite repeated requests from Ophelia. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Men were trying on new suits and running at the same time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He sat stiff and straight-backed, tweed suit perfectly pressed, white handkerchief in his breast pocket, hair slicked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’d ride along bubbling up with things to say but I never uttered a one, which suited Pa fine. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She sat in the front pew in a red dress suit, hands folded in her lap, listening to her husband preach about September 11. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He pulls a tablet from his suit pocket. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She snapped, “Separation couldn’t come too soon to suit me.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in a black suit, black shirt, and black tie. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The other bigfoot, the gray one wearing the suit, just rolls his eyes and adjusts his monocle. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

His best suit was covered in white dust, which had settled in his hair and mustache and made him look as though he had just aged thirty years. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Beyond this, I wasn’t much needed, and that suited me perfectly. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Board of Education, sixteen years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, and ten years after a federal suit had been filed against the school district, Odessa’s schools weren’t remotely close to being integrated. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This situation suits the food industry just fine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A new, light gray, too dressy, double-breasted suit made him look even shorter than his five feet three and three- quarter inches. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once inside, I take off the EVA suit and start driving. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall gray suit, walking with pride and confidence all around El Barrio. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Take the sentence I didn’t see a man in a gray flannel suit. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The woman was wearing a coat with a hunk of fur around the neck and the man was wearing a suit and a tie and the kids looked like they were wearing ten-dollar-apiece jackets. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

One is wearing a suit, a derby hat, and a smile. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. King is the man sitting at that table who is wearing a brown suit and is sitting at the right of the table. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d always try to put together some couples costume that suited both of us, but no matter how hard she tried, it never quite worked. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

‘The human beans is making rules to suit themselves,’ the BFG went on. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I put on my blue suit and my cardinal tie and had my first taxi ride. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in a suit and red tie and seemed thoroughly jacked up on adrenaline. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Unlike Bodega, Nazario spoke cleanly and used his slang only when it suited him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The job suited Singleton after a long period wandering. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In my new Remake Room in Special Defense, my prep team slaps me into my Mockingjay suit, arranges my hair, and applies minimal makeup before my coffee’s even cooled. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Some fellow thinks he’s going to be the master of Africa and winds up with his nice European-tailored suit rumpled in a corner and his wits half cracked from the filaires itching under his skin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently, the muvuki emerged, still wearing his suit but with two ceremonial cloths crossed over his chest and tied behind his back. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remove my suit and place it in the corner. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The difference is just one of style: than I is more suited to formal writing, than me to writing that is closer to speech. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It was never fireworks— just quiet, calm, efficient, responsible—and that just suited him.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The way it would work was this: when we landed in the Pacific, we would open our side hatch, and the Navy frogmen would throw in three rubber suits to us. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dill wore a cheap black suit that had belonged to his father. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“But how can my promesa have any bite unless I have a pretty suit to tempt me?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner at the New York Café he bathed and dressed himself in one of his cool wash suits and as a rule did not go out again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She has on a suit like mine, thankfully, but in crimson. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I zipped up the front zipper of the suit, from crotch to chin. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was doing a hot necropsy in Level 4, perhaps the most dangerous work in a space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember when I decided not to wear a space suit? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men in wet suits will find the galleon three years from now. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking a canister of 02 from Vogel's suit, I attached a strap to both ends and slung it over my shoulder. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog is big, like a man dressed in a dog suit, and runs the same way its owner does, clumsy and wild and with the limbs flopping all over the place like untied shoes. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He owned half- a-dozen Western suits, and I spent many an hour carefully making the crease in his trousers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the space suits have to be portable, so they use a simple chemical absorption process with expendable filters. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

His new companions cluttered the living room and halls wearing zoot suits and wide-brimmed hats and dangling long snaky chains hooked at their belts. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As boys suited up and hoisted oars in and out of the racks, there was little of the usual banter and joshing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This is a constant struggle around my mother, who systematically rewrites history to suit her views of the world. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newcomer wore a black trouser suit, her long auburn hair pulled back in a ponytail. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Caleb runs his hands over the clean suit, the explosives, the backpack they go in. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“That wouldn’t matter too much. I could wear the suit and go and copy out what I need—gear ratios, things like that.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He put on a space suit and explored the building to get a sense of what needed to be done. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stares at the ground near the man in the grey suit’s feet, looking for his shadow, though he is thwarted by the ever-shifting light. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The cabin is empty except for two guards and a scrawny little man in a suit. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t in the best shape to begin with, so I quickly reached a point where I could no longer fit comfortably in my haptic chair or squeeze in to my XL haptic suit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The chief reaches into her suit jacket and pulls out a tiny wooden case. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in her gray suit, with matching bags under her eyes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The Berg stopped again, and once more the strangers in their odd suits lifted their weapons and opened fire. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Frog suits you better. It is not my custom to drink with liars and deserters, but you’ve made me curious.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He still wore his suit and tie from the funeral. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I stepped out of my Tyvek suit, peeling the sticky tape as I went. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You put your feet in first, through a zipper in the back of the suit, and then bend over double. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suit guy whistled “Brown Eyed Girl” as he walked out, those six-packs rattling. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I smelled the clean air of November, turned once more to see how the back of my suit looked, and walked down the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom slipped off her suit jacket and twisted it with a kung fu grip. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

That suits me fine—not even the Commandant can be in two places at once. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure if he had on a sharp suit, or just jeans and a T-shirt, because he wore a long burgundy robe like the ones you wear when you graduate from high school. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Once out of my suit, I did some practice navigating, finding several stars and measuring the angle between them and the earth’s horizon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I open it, there’s a man in a suit. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The men took chemical showers under the gray- area tarp, to decon their space suits after a visit to the cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other moms and dads are dressed in power suits and shoes that glisten. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Marco picks up a ball from the billiard table and hurls it at the man in the grey suit. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She has gathered that the man in the grey suit whom her father called Alexander also has a student, and there will be some sort of game. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My green suit’s coat sleeves stopped above my wrists, the pants legs showed three inches of socks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was dirt everywhere like red chalk dust, and me with my good green linen suit on the outside, wouldn’t you know. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, let me at ’em,” said Neeley referring to a frozen suit of underwear. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fabric of his black wool suit writhed with imprisoned souls. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

McCoy stood before the scoreboard, his gray hair disheveled, his suit wrinkled. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I must have been a comical sight, but I have never owned a suit I was prouder to wear than my father’s cut-off pants. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The names kept coming as I walked into the wind, pushing myself up the hill, my suit jacket now a black cape flapping behind me. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the opposite corner, a plastic sculpture of a guy in an old-fashioned diving suit knelt beside a treasure chest, which popped open every few seconds, spewed bubbles, and closed again. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit does not wear a mask. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“The fact remains I do not like them. Pick another flower to suit me.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she thought about her father—that strange pale man in the silver-and-black suit. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A visor and a pair of haptic gloves were included in the rental price, but a haptic suit cost extra. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a black overcoat, gray suit, yellow silk shirt, and gray suede kicks. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

That night, I dreamt of Felicia in her bathing suit with her pail of cowries and bleeding tooth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Berlioz’s temperament was, to be sure, suited to the fascinations of nineteenth-century opera - doomed love, death and destiny - even if it was not so well suited to the patient, collaborative process of putting on operas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He was not up north wearing a new suit, new shoes, new smile. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Benny stung Robbie with that one, but before Robbie could snap back, Mr. Ray came out of the church with two other guys also dressed in black suits. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Jahrling then put on a space suit and carried his own blood into his Level 4 hot lab. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in a blue suit and wore a red-and-white tie, giving him a certain patriotic look. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wore a navy blue suit I had bought the previous day, after I had brought Baba home from khastegari. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When people saw her lively and impulsive spirit, they thought her name, which meant quick thinking, suited her well. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Tony Johnson, Nancy’s commanding officer when she had worked at usamriid, remembered her competence in a space suit and wanted to get her back. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Kitum Cave, while wearing a space suit and dissecting animals, he had been nicked three times with bloody tools. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s one pill back at camp, in its special slot on the sleeve of my Mockingjay suit. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

So I'm still running my test, but I don't have to wear the EVA suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rolls of fat encircled him and he wore the sweat suit to keep his new ballast unexposed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frederick hurries the volumes back inside their slipcovers; he calls, “Mother?” and a woman wearing a green ski suit with white stripes down the legs enters crying, “Fredde! Fredde!” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But when you wear a suit every single day, it’s hard to not wear one. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then they carried the hatbox to the necropsy room, shuffling slowly in their suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In normal circumstances, I’d prefer to shoot someone who uses the word marvelous, but it suits Milla down to the ground. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was simple enough but seemed an exercise better suited to the use of the pronoun they. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“And, believe me,” Nana said, “it was a relief to your father having me out of sight. It suited him just fine.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She winks and tugs at his tie, which matches the deep maroon of her suit, just like they planned. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As always he wore the dark suit and sunglasses. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Miss Love’s gray fall suit barely showed under hers, and she wore the dust veil over her red hat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Or would they be better suited with the pansies, to the right? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

One woman even filed a paternity suit falsely claiming that Walter was the father of her child, a child that was born less than eight months after Walter's release. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We are scrubbed and in our donated clothes, the girls in dresses with white pinafores and thick stockings, the boys in knickers that button below the knee, white dress shirts, neckties, thick wool suit coats. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He stepped into the foyer, impeccably suited and scarved, with a silk tie knotted at his collar. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you take off those glasses, Juliet? They really don’t suit you.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“That suits me,” he replied, his face relaxing into a gentle smile. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I slipped on my Bermudas and T-shirt over my suit. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Once I park, it's back into the EVA suit for me, and out to Mars again. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got the suit and brought it in, but a few minutes later that particular nightmare ended, and he was in another, even worse, perhaps brought on by the sight of the suit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, sir,” And Jo was quite comfortable after that, for it suited her exactly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women in floral prints smiled and clasped my hand, men in square black suits clapped my shoulder. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The first thing he wanted to know was what was up with the suit. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But instead of lying on a bed suited for a king, I'd have preferred to be at home on my rickety pallet with bedding from the discount aisle at Target. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She was wearing one of her navy blue, immaculate suits with a plain, snow-white blouse showing in the V of the neck. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

If it slid too far, it would drop right out the bottom of my shorts, maybe bounce off of suit guy’s shoe. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I'm in my space suit on Mars and I'm navigating with sixteenth-century tools. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was terribly aware of the man’s suit, the burrs clinging to it, the material old and worn and snagged by briars, the man’s shoes on her feet, the battered old hat. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a suit, but he’s taken the jacket off and slung it on the seat next to him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hammie’s Thief suit is full of pockets, nooks, and crannies, where she can stash items away. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My black suit pants stood out against the white tarp stretched beneath the coffin. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. It turned out to be your wife dressed in your flight suit. We recognized her by her mustache,” Major Reynolds, Bull’s executive officer, shot back. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lefty neatly hung up his suit, pinching each trouser crease, while Sourmelina removed her makeup with cold cream and went to bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Water would be pumped from their backpacks into their suits and through these tubes, cooling their bodies while they were out on the hot lunar surface. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was my best blue suit, but because I had owned it since high school, it was no longer much of a fit. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Whenever I tried to imagine my mother at my age before, she looked exactly like herself, just shorter, more flat-chested, still wearing a suit and pearls, holding a briefcase, hair perfect, shirt starched. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said, “I am not frightened. It suits me quite well to live here.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They even produced a dark suit, white shirt, and tie for Cholly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t lindy-hop any more now, I wouldn’t even have thought of it now, just as I wouldn’t have been caught in a zoot suit now. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next time, he should wear a suit so people would take him seriously. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cutting a chunk out of my EVA suit leaves it with another hole. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one was workmanlike, but it suited her in some inexpressible way. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was wearing the only suit I owned, and we could both see that it had seen better days. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Do you know why human beings need to spit?” the man in the gray suit asked suddenly. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Given the chance, he would eagerly suit up again. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra provided a lifestyle that was tailor-made to suit Mark Antony’s cheerful, carefree nature. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

She’s dressed in a fancy tweed suit as she stands over a pot of bubbling hot water. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Let your clothes alone and put that rag on your eye. I’ll send your suit out first thing tomorrow.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did she notice their impeccable suits, one the light blue of a globe’s watery portions, the other the pale lavender of French pastilles? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like one day he stripped off the tight black jeans and band tees in exchange for suits. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust stained the knees and sleeves of his linen suit. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She looked serious, all decked out in her business suit. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The stranger, a young man wearing a black suit, white shirt, and bow tie, set his briefcase on the bar and asked Shady for a glass of water. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You admit she has had lessons,” the man in the grey suit says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It is a hob who comes forward this time, in a dapper little suit, carefully sewn. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see a man in a gray flannel suit; he was wearing a kilt. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a dark suit that was much too tight for him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the silk suit and homburg came out of the shadow of the doorway and followed him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole time, Jamie lay on a hospital bed, wearing only a red bathing suit. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If Vogel used too much force, the shock of it would pull the tether free from Beck's suit clips. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door opened, and a man dressed in a crisp white suit and a wide-brimmed hat walked in. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Two other restaurants had desegregated the night before, and others promised to follow suit within days. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The suit had brown rubber gloves that were attached by gaskets at the cuffs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I reckon the police wont get me for wearing my new suit one time,” I said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They removed their white camouflage suits, revealing British military uniforms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a trim little fellow in a gray suit and fedora, with leather suitcases piled at his side and his family jammed in the backseat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Already the mourning bands had been sewn around the arms of two gray suits, and now he was on the last. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She thought that sort of job would suit her better than teaching. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Now I was standing in a large modern fitness center lined with exercise equipment and weight machines, all of which could be perfectly simulated by my haptic suit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Make a gesture, he must have thought, let my Asian friend in the suit have a pleasant moment with her. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked to learn of her: I saw the part of instructress pleased and suited her; that of scholar pleased and suited me no less. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a jogging suit but no coat. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once the bedroom is set up again, I can take off my EVA suit and relax. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was curly-haired and foul-humored, and seemed better suited for covering dangerous wars in far-flung countries than for teaching history to undergraduates. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They edged around each other as they fiddled with their suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman took out his wallet and pulled from it his airplane ticket stub, but he had no pencil to write with, and his pen was in his suit. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It just grew too slowly to suit me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great, just great —Ebola blood all over my suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wore matching dark suits and each of them had a little flower in his lapel. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

John Jones joined them, opening a tailor shop to clean and repair elegant suits and dresses for the wealthy whites in town. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One mother was in a gorgeous red- and-green pagne wrap, her sons drowning in suits whose shoulder pads hung around their elbows. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Being limited in materials, due to shortages and rationing, she used a gorgeous sunset-colored wool that she had unraveled from a suit tailored for her by Ormaie’s most expensive modiste in 1912. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

ATTN: will be wearing a burgundy velvet suit tonight, please do not attempt to steal my shine, you will fail and i will be embarrassed for you. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The business suit guy was walking with us across the parking lot. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I told them about the National Science Fair, and they began to lay out brown, blue, and gray suits for me to consider. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I dreamed of a deerskin suit, and watched my herd with clothes in mind. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laid his suit coat over his arm and lifted the glass of water in salute. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

You can see the world fine, even if, locked up inside your pressure suit, you really don’t feel you are part of it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He polished his riding boots so that you could see yourself reflected in them, brushed his suit, and went off to dinner. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

My main concern was that he was wearing a suit, impractical dress for prison, but we managed to find him some old clothes instead. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the Institute, they say that you can’t predict who will panic inside a biological space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It continued past long storage racks that held a wide array of weaponry: magic swords, shields, powered armor suits, plasma rifles, railguns, and countless other weapons. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The judge holds me in contempt, and the fashion press notes that my suit jacket neither strained nor bunched when my hands were cuffed behind my back. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted to mount a legal attack on behalf of all black riders as a class-action suit, not just to defend protesters who got arrested and charged as criminals one by one. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a white suit and a gold cross pendant. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The white man in the gray suit, the one whose newspaper I had sent flying, approached us, and I knew I was in trouble. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Aucamp was a short, heavyset fellow in a suit rather than a military uniform. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You promised not to be judgy. People walk around the city in less than a bathing suit!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

One of these suggested that there was being erected at Cross Angel Street a new “cold storage” building; and as this suited the condition of a “new-fangled ware’us,” I at once drove to it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They’re fine, clean guys in straight, pressed suits—well-off cats who earned their bank on the slant. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That will suit us very well," my grandmother said, and she stood up and marched out of the room with me behind her. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He in his black suit and bow tie. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Punctual and thorough, he had a good work ethic and absolutely no ambition, which suited Petty Officer Lac, who had plenty of ambition but no work ethic to speak of. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She was looking toward my open closet, bulging with racks of shoes, ties, my dresses, and Rich’s suits. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suit itself was made of Tyvek, a slick, white fabric that is resistant to moisture and dust. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with the stifling crowds, there were jugglers and swordsmen and curio sellers and camels lumbering under the weight of tourists in starched suits and petticoats. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Was he one of those old men with white hair like Jacques Cousteau who wore scuba suits well into their eighties? The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I wear double-breasted Italian suits and custom-made English shoes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are correct, except for your tongue it doesn’t suit you.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Standing in front of Dad was a young, barrel-chested man wearing a shiny blue suit. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Still in his overcoat and suit from the office. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

One wore a raggedy silken gown that looked like it had once been white, the other wore a stained grey suit too large for it, the sleeves of which were shredded into shadowy tatters. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“He’s on his way,” the man in the suit said. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

In recent years, dictionaries have come to accept a looser usage, meaning “because of” or “on account of”: Richie threw the suit away due to the hole. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I regret I did not force the matter. You would have suited my household.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But this girl is preferred. And the boy—the son of Poseidon. You can see why those two would be most suited for the task.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It didn’t eat holes in ElViejo’s suit, the way the Flying Priest’s holy water ate through demons on TV. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the musicians wound up their number, a small man in a suit stepped up to the microphone and welcomed everyone to the meeting of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the United Klans of America. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She wears frosted blue eye shadow and a lemon yellow suit. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Let us think how to stop it; let the suitors drop their suit; they had better, without delay. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She goes out around noon, and while she’s gone, I steal one of Dad’s suits from the closet. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For the reception he changes into a suit, she into a red Banarasi gown with spaghetti straps, something she’d designed herself and had made by a seamstress friend. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy went back to biological work in space suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t wearing no suit like she done the day we met her. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“This is a neoprene material, like what wet suits are made of. The sleeve will create a vacuum between you and your prosthetic leg that will hold it firmly in place.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Nancy turned to the right, into an antechamber, and found her space suit hanging on a rack. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was thin and undersized and wore a shabby dark suit with a collarless and tieless shirt. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa was elegant that day, in a brand-new double-breasted worsted suit, with vest and silk tie and stickpin. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place was a back eddy, a pool of jetsam beyond the pull of the main current, and that suited him just fine. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not very pretty, so dressing as a boy rather suits you!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

People in plastic suits sprint back and forth with fire extinguishers. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He used his Yiddish like a secondhand suit, something worn at the elbows, ill-fitting, and a touch unpleasant. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

If Edward was inside the suit when they were fired, then he had certainly been killed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But he’d never hoped to dream that— “It was an old bicycle, anyway,” the man in the gray suit went on. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Thorn’s mother walked in moments later, wearing an all-black suit and pointy green heels and looking like someone out of a movie. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bates might not like my suit, or the cut of my hair, and my chance of a job would be lost. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

That fall Radine and I tried out, and we suited them just fine. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did the German song suit, Miss March?” inquired Mr. Brooke, breaking an awkward pause. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she grabbed me to her, still in her suit, put one hand on my back and one on the back of my head, and said, “Oh, baby, I’m so sorry.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Not a speck escaped Aunt March’s eye, and all the furniture had claw legs and much carving, which was never dusted to suit. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But from what he said in his dream, and from the holes in the suit, I cannot help believing he did. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She wore a dark gray skirt suit and heels, a lawyer or banker, the kind of person who ran things, not the kind who would hang out with a guy like me, jeans and sneakers. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gamblers in pin-striped suits and their makeup-deep women whispered to me out of blood-red mouths that now I knew as much as they did. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearing five o'clock, and he was trying on his new sharp-looking sharkskin suit. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Arion crashed through the main doors into the plaza and scattered a bunch of guys in business suits. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Two men in biohazard suits were walking clumsily together, as if in slow motion. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be silly. We’ll have to try and swim. We’ll all put on our bathing suits and caps and swim underwater as much as we can, so nobody can see we’re Jews.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When she saw the note, she knew that she would be putting on a space suit and going in to dissect the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His red suit made his pupils look even more washed out, and his body seemed tense, like a dog scenting its prey. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a dark suit, with a crimson tie. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You must temper your passion to suit the scene!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

All four of the lawyers sported new suits; the new shoes of the big-footed county attorney creaked and squealed with every step. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dropping off my Mockingjay suit, I go straight to bed without eating. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He had played chess, too, but he was not temperamentally suited to chess. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Washington also stopped by the tailor shop of Hercules Mulligan and ordered a suit of civilian clothes. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

To go inside I had to put on a white hooded suit. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The man in the yellow suit came into the sunlit parlor. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a matching suit jacket, and beneath it, a collared shirt starched stiff. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“One more week, Master,Underwood. And then, if you cannot prove your claims, it will be time for you to pursue another career. Something to suit your dramatic talents. Puppet theater, perhaps. Or tap dancing.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a large suit, sized for a big man, and she was five feet tall. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She eyed me with her silky black eyes and pecked at my suit. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that morning, at about eleven o’clock, the front gate swung open, revealing the commanding officer with two men in suits. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I really wish there was a child somewhere that I was suited to." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

How aptly the verses suited the forest scene, I thought. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in churchgoing clothes, her Ladies Day outfit, a blue suit with a matching hat that swooped down from its mischievous perch on the side of her head. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I taped the front zipper of the suit, taped the wrists of my gloves to the suit, taped the cuffs of the boots to the suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Giants is also making rules. Their rules is not suiting the human beans. Everybody is making his own rules to suit himself.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Girls stood in bunches in their long, fine evening dresses, and the boys roamed around in clean duck pants or R.O.T.C. uniforms or new dark fall suits. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Henry Dobbins was a good man, and a superb soldier, but sophistication was not his strong suit. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in a severe gray suit and was sucking a peppermint. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

We all got in our flight space suits and huddled in the middle of the Hab, just in case it lost pressure. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee’s suits look like they may have come from Today’s Man. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But tough as the work was, there was much about it that suited Joe. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

People were dressed up tonight, in gowns and in black suits with long coattails. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Later in the afternoon a tall white man wearing a cool white suit, a Panama hat, and white shoes came toward me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Highboy, wearing a loud checked suit, moved sociably through the crowd. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The moss green suits her beautifully, but this lemon yellow is too much.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit gives her a polite nod. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And then a young man, the agents clerk in his neat suit and cravat, appeared at her side and asked her to come with him to the agent’s office. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then I inflated the bag with pure 02 from the suit's tanks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a black suit that stretched only far enough across his vast belly for one button to connect with its buttonhole. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I pull on a full coverage suit and slip on new gloves. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’m most confused about the choice of suit because I’d expected hearts. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Her speciality was turning out to be the effects of Biosafety Level 4 hot agents, and in the presence of those kinds of agents you need to wear a space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few feet from the soldiers, Captain Mark Haines began to suit up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zahra is waiting in the hall with her own bag and a freshly pressed suit of Alex’s, a sensible navy one that she has apparently decided is appropriate for meeting the queen. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The men wore dark suits, the women wore veils. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The free Negroes, the Quakers, the Methodists, the German farmers, who helped runaway slaves in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, started using phrases and words suited to the idea of a railroad. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a woman with white hair who talked for a long time to a woman in a red business suit. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a dark pant suit, no doctor’s coat or scrubs, but had a stethoscope around her neck. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

At first glance classic style sounds naive and philistine, suited only to a world of concrete goings-on. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Margaret said that she was sorry that she did not have a bathing suit to lend me. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You told me how you shot him in the chest. You had to patch the bullet holes in the suit. In this very suit I’m wearing, the one that saved your life.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

These suits were designed to fit each cosmonaut. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll need you back in, too. But don't take your suit off." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man wearing a silk suit and a homburg came out of the shadow of an adjoining doorway for a moment to see whether the girls had gone. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fumbled it a little, and caught it before I had green bean juice all over my only suit. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A man in a brown suit came toward her, puffing little white clouds of breath. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bought me a suitcase and some clothes, mostly long-sleeved shirts, dress pants, and traditionally waxed, colorful cotton suits with intricate embroidery on the collars, sleeves, and hems of pants. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even Kaz had foregone his immaculately cut suit in favor of a bulky wool coat. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Between heaves, interrupted by coughing spells, Frantig apologized for leaving the building while wearing a jump suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I folded the stack of tissues Mama handed me and slid them into the breast pocket of my suit. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The slender circlet around his brows seemed to suit him well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On March 10, 1962, a glamorous Katherine Johnson, bedecked in pearls and an elegant suit that would have made Jackie Kennedy proud, smiled from the front page of the Pittsburgh Courier. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The kid holds a playing card, but for now I don’t see what suit it is. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Up close, the waistcoat under his suit jacket is a lush gold and has about a million buttons on it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That suits me perfectly, since I don’t want to be sitting next to him anyway. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Some guy in one of those very dark gray flannel suits and one of those checkered vests. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The suit leaks heat faster than my body could ever generate it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Homer pretended he was of Italian extraction when it suited him and let his questioners sit with their bewilderment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was a roundness and firmness to her, a clean, strong roundness, and her heavy blond hair cast a glow over her shoulders when she wore a bathing suit. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I ruined my life fifteen different ways, but the suit still fits perfectly. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Leftover cigar smoke drifted from men’s suits, and at each stop the roar of frogs and crickets filled the car. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Like all wild animals, rabbits can swim if they have to: and some even swim when it suits them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon afterward a man wearing a suit came in, speaking effusively in Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in a rumpled linen suit took the stage to deliver a brief welcome. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Money and favors were bartered as everyone vied for a time that suited them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mom and I went shopping for new bathing suits yesterday. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Wearing a full suit of armor and carrying a sword, he waded through the stream and offered himself as a hostage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The quiet work and sea air suited him. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Now which of these two students do you think is better suited to do the kind of brilliant, imaginative work that wins Nobel Prizes? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A skinny bald man—who sort of resembled a plucked chicken in a bright blue suit—strutted out the lobby door. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He stood in front of the Bayside Press building in the same burgundy-and-silver-blue outfit James had described him wearing at the book carnival: top hat, suit, and walking stick all in Bayside Press colors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Day one in the Congo, and here my brand-new tulip-tailored linen suit in Poison Green with square mother-of-pearl buttons was fixing to give up the goat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put on my other jogging suit, the cerise one, and do some desultory stretching exercises on Jon’s floor. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She told me I was looking better than ever, and that my hair suited me really well. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had instructed them not to come out of the building wearing a mask or a protective suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gasped for air and turned the EVA suit back on. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange seeing Mrs. Baylor's son not in his painting clothes but in an actual suit, and Lily acting as if she'd known him all her life. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

If we did not suit up right, we would lose points, which hurt our grade. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

After removing her suit, Lewis made her way to the flight cabin. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Romeo wears a silver, glittering knight’s suit with a sword. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of wearing sweatpants and sneakers like most coaches, one day Sam showed up in what looked like a pink zoot suit—pink slacks, pink shirt, pink fedora, and pink alligator shoes. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“And I am so plain, you see, Die. We should never suit.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Black cloaks would suit them, I agree. I will not suffer such men in the city watch.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The room was jammed with people in space suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheriff and local judges enforced the law only when it suited the coal companies. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The organism was too frightening. to handle, even for those who were comfortable and adept in space suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next, to my astonishment, he took off the plastic suit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was initially assigned to the hospital ward but I will find a replacement, of course, as they will surely discover my talents are better suited in other areas. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I take my notebook out of the inner pocket of my suit jacket. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It filled her suit with a roar like a subway train coming through a tunnel. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the man in the grey suit looks out of place. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Green and rubbery and bulky—one-piece suits that covered the strangers from head to toe. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He wore a wrinkled brown suit that stretched into folds around his waist because he was so fat. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Yossarian bent forward to peer and saw a strangely colored stain seeping through the coveralls just above the armhole of Snowden’s flak suit. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She had to get herself assigned to work in a space suit in Level 4 areas. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that suited its current inhabitants just fine. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s getting colder, and the flurries have turned into steady snow, but the sting of the wind against my face suits my mood just fine. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If Grigori had come here in a suit and top hat, he would blend in as effortlessly as any American. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Some are in bathing suits, one piece or bikini; one, I see, is wearing a crocheted affair, with big scallop shells covering the tits. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peris’s suit was deep black velvet, his shirt, vest, and tie all glowing white. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The important foreigners and school officials sit in the front rows in their suits and fancy dresses. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a quiet hum inside, and a guy in a blue suit greets us as we make our way inside. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The best was the balding guy in a plaid suit jacket, dark jeans, and shiny red sneakers that matched his bow tie. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Until the suit is filed and the courts rule on it,” said Mrs. Brewer, “public employees will have to sign or not sign as they see fit.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was a thin girl in a black bathing suit who was having a lot of trouble putting up an orange umbrella at Jones Beach, circa 1936. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

To his delight, the suit was accepted as a constitutional challenge to state law and assigned to a three-judge federal panel. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He could not believe that there were hoods in suits out by the gates who were not stabbing each other. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Others seemed to be regular living mortals - some in togas, some in modern business suits or army fatigues. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a fine suit made of red silk. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

He and Will break out into laughter for the third time over my makeshift hazmat suit. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It was still almost eighty degrees outside, the sun hadn’t even set, and he stood in his dark three-piece suit, smiling his stiff, press-on smile, gesturing to everybody and nobody like the Queen of England. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the pale suit in the seat beside Shadow put out his arm and tapped his watch with his fingernail. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Once when I visited Buddy I found Mrs. Willard braiding a rug out of strips of wool from Mr. Willard's old suits. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He has thick blond hair that stands up almost in knots, wears old suit pants for comfort, and jangles his keys in his pockets with his hands. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes standing around in my EVA suit, I decided to make better use of my time. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the right is another white man, balding in a blue suit, sitting at the prosecutor’s desk. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The house was given over to the dog, rooms redecorated to suit her fancy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

My father beside her looked proud and a little awkward in his Sunday suit. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Bol was a bouncer at the Crow Club, perfectly suited to tossing out drunks and wasters, but too heavy on his feet to be much use when it came to a real tussle. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then they would have to appoint someone to head the new group, an experienced girl—white, obviously—someone whose disposition suited the sensitivity of the assignment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mark nodded and followed suit, cinching tight the straps of his pack. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The men in the white suits went into action. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

You are responsible for maintaining your space suit in the same way that a paratrooper is responsible for packing and maintaining his own parachute. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always wore sharp suits, and my mom would always talk about how nice his shoes were. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But the armchair suits Grandpa and is way more comfortable than the elegant-but-hard-as-a-rock sofa I’m sitting on. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

This did not suit Jo at all, but she accepted the place since nothing better appeared and, to every one’s surprise, got on remarkably well with her irascible relative. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made me want to trade in the watch and the suit in return for him not having worked as hard as he obviously had to get those things. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

With my wild zoot suit I wore the yellow knob-toe shoes, and I frizzled my hair up into a reddish bush of conk. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I may be hidden behind a black suit and a randomized face, but just because I frequent this world doesn’t mean I’m ever comfortable with it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some fathers wear suits and ties, having come right from work. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Pick out a suit in a rich royal blue. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We provided some aid to the volunteer lawyer on the case and a suit was filed, although there wasn't much hope. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You right. I don’t have a suit. But what I do have is an umbrella.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If only I could ever bring forth all that I knew quickly enough to suit Father. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing an old seersucker suit which hung very loosely on him—he, too, had lost some weight—and a frayed old Sulka tie. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He suited the action to the word and then turned his attention for the first time to the motionless figure lying in the bunk. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

That thin shoes and suits with vests and smooth smooth hands were the measure. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Exactly,” said the man in the yellow suit. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Linton waited at the prosecutor’s table, in a black suit and maroon tie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I laid out two suits of underwear, with socks, shirts, collars and ties, and packed my trunk. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A hundred chancy things can happen to rip your suit.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any event, this was not a moment of high glamour for me, not a time I could really imagine blow-drying my hair and putting on a business suit. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They wore dark suits and crisp white collars. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When I put on the suit of magical armor, it shrank to fit my avatar perfectly. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She had the jacket to this tan suit my mother bought her in Canada hung up on the back of the chair. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

After the performance has concluded, the man in the grey suit navigates the crush of patrons in the theater lobby with ease. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Fuming and uttering curses, my father grabbed my mother’s hand, and we left the tent; many people followed suit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk the halls surrounded by an aura of potential verbal danger, and am treated with caution, which suits me fine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A gentleman in a suit emerged from a restaurant stepping quickly away from the drops I was splashing about. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Kappe had told them to bring a complete suit that was made in America to change into and wear, so they would blend in. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Bacon had limb disabilities themselves—he with a missing arm and she without a left foot—and so were well suited for their business. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And he spoke quite a bit as they started off, he and the man in the yellow suit. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they hired a lawyer, Louis Koerner, to pursue a civil suit against the city, the state, the prisons, the police department, and a half-dozen other agencies and individuals. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a pair of blue suit pants and a crisply pressed white shirt and a red tie. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the two Army officers appeared in space suits, the healthy monkeys went nuts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That name came with the bloodshed, but it suited the two centuries of Mesarthim reign. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Even as the last Americans were still passing Hitler, the first German athletes began to emerge from the tunnel, dressed in crisp white linen suits and sporting white yachting caps. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A dignified gentleman in a three-piece suit alighted. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the boy is ready, the man in the grey suit takes him from the grey stone building, and he does not return. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He and the Fruit of Islam were dressed in dark suits, white shirts, and bow ties. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother wears a bright pink track suit because she’s a master runner in marathons. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Powell had hopped down into a sitting position on the robot again, and his suited hand slapped against the Gargantuan’s barrel chest. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

My legs and torso followed suit, and I pushed my foot against the pool’s edge, which sent me floating in no fixed direction. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Falk sent me to have his suit pressed,” I would say. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Reverend was dressed in a black suit and a black tie, as if he had just come from a funeral. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Miggery, there is no need to shout. None at all. As you can hear me, so I can hear you. We two are perfectly suited, each to the other.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baxter pointed to the table, where Frankie was balancing a doughnut in his mouth while wrapping another one in a napkin and hiding it in his suit pocket. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The suit looked expensive, and was the color of melted vanilla ice cream. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit does not admonish him for calling. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She is wearing a suit, but she’s in her stocking feet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A week later, as Mom had feared, the Football Fathers had themselves a proud little suit. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still holding my breath, I glanced over to the space suit and Hefty bag I'd used to outsmart the regulator. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I had the suit off, I placed it inside the cleaning unit and laid my clean spare suit out on the floor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He wore a rumpled black suit and a tie. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I asked, wondering how as a young Muslim girl the team uniform could ever suit me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They were shouting at two men in business suits who were holding something behind their backs. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Why should I tell you! Just because it happens to suit you!” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn't an alternate suit for Valentina Tereshkova, but luckily she had no problems with her suit as she climbed into Vostok 6. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity--except his wife, who moved close to Tom. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“But Teccam claims that out of all the spirits, only wine is suited to reminiscence. He said a good wine allows clarity and focus, while still allowing a bit of comforting coloration of the memory.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She seems to coat herself in a protective aura, like a hazmat suit that no one else can see. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He had a suit on, a bit too big, but he looked nice, if only I didn’t think about how he was a cheat and a racist. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he did not want Edward to take the suit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When she broke the surface of the water, men in diving suits were there. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Before, Pa stayed home and Uncle Darnell went to church with us in his black suit and kept a pair of white gloves folded in his pocket. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t say anything as I sit in the seat opposite, and that suits me just fine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Giant tapestries and a huge collection of fantasy artwork covered the walls, while gargoyle statues and suits of armor lined the hallways. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I went into a bathing-cabin, undressed, put on my suit, and walked across the smooth sand to the sea. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I have to shower! And put on my suit! And tie the tie—you know it takes forever to get the tie!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I donned my jacket — which had the feel of a biohazard suit — and headed out into the rain. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Douglass came north to escape and find work in the shipyards; a big fellow in a sailor's suit who, like me, had taken another name. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pluto’s dark suit shimmered, as if the souls trapped in the fabric were getting agitated. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Riddick was a compact ball of nervous energy wrapped in a suit. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the pass office I was interrogated by a young black man in a checkered suit who appeared to enjoy the job he was doing: putting his own folks through hell. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was Tea Cake in the big old station in a new blue suit and straw hat, hauling her off to a preacher’s house first thing. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

You were not allowed to wear anything under the scrub suit, no underwear. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a dark suit and aviator sunglasses and looked as if he were either coming from a funeral or an elite member of the Secret Service. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then, through the window, I saw a dark figure in a black suit, alone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Real teachers can’t afford designer suits,” I say before I really think about what I’m saying. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bubbe Frieda had never been zaftig, but she had had the good taste to wear what is called "a dressmaker bathing suit." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'd spent a week back on Earth practicing emergency space suit drills. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He runs his finger around the collar of his dim white shirt—he’s back to his old, well-worn brown suit. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I felt a little silly, not because I was at a random funeral, but because my arms looked like tentacles in Mr. Ray’s huge suit jacket. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Carnage suited me; heaven put those things in me somehow. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a gray suit and shiny gold watch. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take the blue suit, please, thank you,” Lefty says in his best English. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His neatly clipped silver hair and tailored suits and unmitigating stare of eyes and trim old body said it all over in simple, clear language: Chief Executive Officer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband emerges from the light and comes toward her, taller than the palms, walking on water in his white summer suit and Panama hat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Medieval chain mail hung next to ornate layered samurai outfits and richly inlaid steel-plate suits. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“No. I was proactive. The suits love it when you are proactive.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They were both dressed in white suits and white shoes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They knew that the air outside was poisonous with radioactivity, and they had in their laboratory the only suit in the world that would protect against it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I hear the words Ole Miss and on the fuzzy screen I see white men in dark suits crowding the camera, sweat running off their bald heads. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He got on a brown suit and a brown hat, be about my age. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He used the emotional force of the occasion, channeled through his rhetoric, to quietly shift the political ground and redefine the casus belli in a way that suited him. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I try on a plain navy blue suit. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

And before I knew it, I was leaving the hospital, wearing a sweat suit, carrying nothing but my notepad. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But all six EVA suits are still here and in perfect condition. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the island of Java, in Indonesia, lived Homo soloensis, ‘Man from the Solo Valley’, who was suited to life in the tropics. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has not noticed him approach, but the man whose name she still cannot recall the proper pronunciation of is standing by her shoulder in his distinctive grey suit. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

On Leo’s right, the suit of armor with a lion’s head helmet creaked its wiry neck and regarded Hazel and Frank, who were still lying unconscious. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hatsue, carrying a garden shovel and a metal pail rusted through in its bottom, dripped water behind her as she walked the tide flats; she was fourteen and wore a black bathing suit. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

What was it the man in the gray suit had said, about shooting in a healthy direction? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Standing under the scoreboard with Celia, her back to me, was a woman in a sharp business suit, her blond hair waving down to the middle of her back. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She comes to school in her gym suit on the last day before Thanksgiving break. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

After the sensors are all attached, you put on long white cotton underwear and then crawl into your pressure suit, which is not an easy thing to do. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a sigh, I turned around and trudged back the way I had come, in a mood neatly suited to the desolate landscape. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I tried on a shiny blue suit that looked so worn I think Columbus must have sported it over to the New World. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The others didn’t pay him as much attention as they did when the rebel dressed in the army suit spoke. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I watched the suit readouts carefully to see if it had to replace any "lost" air. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a report, Agent Wren wrote that Hale was “making all the propaganda he can to favor himself by giving presents, suits of clothes, as well as going on notes”—providing loans—“for different people.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Deborah, unasked, lasted with him, and prayed, and took his best black suit away, so that it would be clean and mended and freshly pressed for the great day. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in a gray wool suit; she wore pearls around her neck and in her earlobes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, trying not to sound too wary, for ideas are not Katz’s strongest suit. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

If he liked, he might even bring a suit against Mr. Lyte. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted to sell an overcoat and a suit of Mr. van D.’s, but were unable to find any buyers. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He even wears a white shirt with a suit vest over it like he’s catching the tail end of a wedding. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I bought a new suit of clothes and some shoes. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

By solving it, he helped the city become the birthplace of skyscrapers despite terrain that could not have been less suited to the role. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

From the other side, three men in dark suits push a hulking metal contraption front and center. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Amy kept to her fatty suit until her legs were chafed and pimpled. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit leans into the table, as though he might whisper his words conspiratorially, but the tenor of his voice does not change. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His gray suit was torn, and his bare feet were deformed, the long toes capped with talon-curved nails. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The eagerly waiting audience, overdressed in fancy gowns and suits, quickly realized it was no use trying to fan themselves to cool off. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

But Coyotito—he was the one—he wore a blue sailor suit from the United States and a little yachting cap such as Kino had seen once when a pleasure boat put into the estuary. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then came a spray of EnviroChem, coming out of nozzles all up and down the sides of the air lock, which deconned her space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

GDs in green suits walk across the wings and crawl under the noses, checking the planes before takeoff. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

You know, I suit up a lot these days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He instructed me to return the next day for our rehearsal and exhorted me to find clothes better suited to playing before the premier citizens in the Colony. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I immediately opened a savings account and a checking account, and bought myself a new suit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed more formally than I could remember seeing him: a gray business suit, a blue dress shirt open at the collar, polished black loafers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Once inside, I sleep on the couch in my casual black suit and the ocean blue shirt. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When they saw the two men in space suits, they froze, speechless. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The message suited Farmer temperamentally, because for all his scholarly understanding of developing nations’ problems, his strongest impulses were pragmatic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Lancelot, who did not care for gaudy things, wore a few heron’s hackles bound with silver thread, which suited the argent of his shield. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wears dark, conservative suits, so that he looks like a bank manager or a stockbroker. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t dressed in surgical scrubs that day, instead in a button-down navy blue suit and yellow tie. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And she had a whole gang of lesser demons, all dressed in matching gym suits. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Once sealed inside, the three of us were able to get out of our hot suits and take showers for the first time in eight days. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get me a monkey suit and I’ll help you with the oil.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Scarlet and gray boating suit, good enough for me. I shall row and tramp about, so I don’t want any starch to think of. You’ll come, Betty?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ladybird Hope made her way through the angry mob to her car, where two federal agents in dark suits waited for her. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I can feel the rough sleeve of that cropped green suit, like an emblem of the green boy wearing it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a suit...even has a spot on his chin where he nicked himself shaving and left the little piece of tissue there “for effect.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She put on her brushed and pressed gray suit with all the braid on it and tilted her jade-green velvet hat over her right eye. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I selected the materials for a suit, with the assistance of Mr. Trabb’s judgment, and re-entered the parlour to be measured. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He's as tall as me, only wider everywhere, and for some reason, maybe because we're not far from Freak's house, I'm thinking this weird thought: He doesn't need a suit of armor. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He looked faintly absurd, stepping over the carpet of dry leaves in his tight airport suit, his tie blown over his shoulder. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I couldn’t wear O’Dell’s suit, I was still going to show the National Science Fair at least a little Big Creek Missile Agency style. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt turned a corner and saw a female police officer helping an injured man in a suit limp down the street. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

As I stepped out I spotted a tall man in an Italian suit, standing in the bright spring sun glowing like an apparition. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In my experience, you put a suit on any half-intelligent black man and white people tended to go bonkers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Much as I trust my handiwork, I wanted a two-armed suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is also Brahman saguna, with qualities, where the suit fits. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the gray suit grinned a sideways sort of grin. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Still, he refused to let it go; it was the only thing, he said, that matched his muddy, sopping, finely tailored suit. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She pressed her wrinkled hands together, forgetting the man in the yellow suit. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to wear a jacket,” he says, meaning a suit jacket, I guess. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Built into the inside of the suit was a weblike network of miniature actuators that made contact with my skin every few centimeters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There are few suits to be seen, and fewer ties. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

His ten $400 suits were in storage somewhere, but he just didn’t seem to care to dress well anymore. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The man sitting on the other side of the desk in the interview room was in his thirties and wore civilian clothes—black suit, tie, black loafers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A dark shadow covers his upper lip, and his sweat suit is rumpled. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

After Ma helps me put on my bathing suit, which is a very short pink dress with the legs sewn in, she and Pa go to the second floor and have their lunch. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked to be in his late twenties and wore a black suit, black shoes, and a black hat. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

That was another big hurdle behind us, and none of us, we hoped, would need our pressure suits again. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the room sat seven or eight men, young, dressed in dark suits, very much at ease, and very imposing. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“And what’s with the hair and the suit?” said Harry in an undertone. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She tries to pull away but the man in the grey suit keeps his hand firmly around her wrist. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Despite my suit, my haircut, and my height, every time I went into a men’s room a shout rang out in my head: “You’re in the men’s!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I can't tell what she would look like from the back, or whether her profile would suit. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Like he’s a little old man dressed in a cheap suit. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The suit, who brought up the rear, was carrying a digital clipboard. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Abbey and I put on our bathing suits and grabbed a couple of towels and dashed outside. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I decided not to wear a space suit after all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, we often see princes given horses, arms, and vestments of gold cloth, precious stones, and similar ornaments suited to their greatness. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

But even those hundred-dollar pants suits she brought in for me to wear can’t make up for the hurt I feel when she slaps me with them mean words of hers. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s always amusing to catch one of the burly suits speaking in code over their earpieces: “Black Bear has requested extra banana peppers.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Neither is that monkey suit you got on,” he gave it back. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He used to wear a military-style khaki suit replete with epaulets and gold buttons, and carried a baton like that made famous by Field Marshal Montgomery. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Mr. Flux’s new second in command, he was required to wear a suit, like when Grandma dragged them to church on Sundays. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Why was it that she kept asking how when the man could do anything with this place, including turn it upside down when it suited him? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was a young man in a well- tailored but dirty suit. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sheepishly, Alexander stepped back, and his two siblings followed suit. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The reason was that they could not stop staring—with a curious mixture of fascination, fear, and uneasiness—at Mr. Curtain in his green-plaid suit, silvery glasses, and demonic wheelchair. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a Racal suit, and he had a pump sprayer filled with bleach. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath the coat he sees that she is wearing a nubbly gray suit, with large buttons on the jacket and a bell-shaped skirt that stops short of her knees. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few other families stood by, in clumps, looking solemn, the women in black, the men in suits or formal guayaberas. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know vulnerability is not my strong suit!” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I suppose that suits us, doesn’t it? After all, you did steal my gong.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It looked like a bag of Skittles had melted and someone had made a suit out of it. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I’m not wearing jeans and khakis, but a suit. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Finally he sold his suit and helmet and pump and went on a hell of a drunk and then he left town. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to it, there’s an egg wearing a man’s suit and hat sitting on a wall with a bunch of happy soldiers all around. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Emma and I sat down just as the curtain opened, revealing a straw boater hat floating atop a gaudy red-and-white striped suit. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

One of the ministers, a heavyset African American man dressed in a dark suit with a large cross around his neck, walked over to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A chubby white guy in a gray suit comes in a few minutes after the class is supposed to have started. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

This suited Lilya just fine: she liked to do as she pleased. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It subdued the brightness of my cousins’ suits. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The men could sit at the bar and drink Tuskers or lean on the great mantel by the fire and tell stories after a hard day in the cave wearing a space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bearded man in a dark suit stands stiffly behind a thin woman seated in a straight-backed chair. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Separate groups of fast walkers in suits go in and out of the building. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The decon team suited up immediately while the soldiers were coming out of the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dell has on a suit, which is pretty tight. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I put Mr. Patterson in a pair of white shorts with skinny white legs sticking out and I gave Mrs. Patterson a big sunhat and a bathing suit, imagining Moxie bottles in the sand. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The prince wore a suit of black as a statement of sadness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On to my next problem: How do I fix the EVA suit? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as breakfast was over, we had to scramble into our pressure suits. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might pretend to go and then turn back, and catch me in the act of stealing the cart and suit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Murder was all around us and we knew, deep in ourselves, in some silent space, that the author of these murders was beyond us, that it suited some other persons ends. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The man in the gray suit leaned over the basket. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She is walking down Fulton Street in her mauve velour jogging suit, past the shabby May’s department store with mannequins from another era, past shuttered shops and bus-stop benches draped with sleeping bums. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a breach in her space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for an answer, he hopped up and asked the same question of a man moving by, who held his suit jacket over his shoulder. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of the young fellows, not too much older than me, wear the most amazing billowing suits. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father inspired trust with his perfectly tailored suits that were made less stuffy because he never wore a tie and always left the collar open. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But the man in the yellow suit stood tapping his foot in the road for a long time all alone, looking at the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit lifts his hand to knock again, but then lowers it and walks away instead. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Because it’s wrong! It exploits women. We’re parading around in bathing suits and evening gowns, letting people judge us for the way we look. No wonder the world doesn’t take us seriously.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

In my black suit, with my dirty Wallabees, I stood in the doorway, which was open to the winter wind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I hate this bathing suit. The straps are always falling down.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The focus motor buzzed to suit the light. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Holly felt the dart puncture the suit’s toughened material, depositing its load of curare and succinylcholine chloride-based tranquilizer into her shoulder. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

This plan suited Penelope perfectly, for it meant that she would have some time to shop without having to listen to Lady Constance’s endless talk. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I was wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and tie. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“What a trip. I’m beat. Oh, and that new dry cleaner you took my suits to last time is a moron.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vogel, back in his suit, depressurized Airlock 2 and opened the outer door. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trudging through the shadows, Officer Delinko pictured himself in a tailored suit instead of a starchy uniform. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What day would suit YOU?" he corrected me quickly. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

We found our uniforms—a gray suit for me and a white lab coat for Elsie—waiting for us in our closet. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Mr. van Daan wants me to sit next to him at the table, since Margot doesn’t eat enough to suit him. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I walked out onto the stage, stepping into the blinding lights wearing high heels and a white suit, to give Barack a congratulatory hug before turning to wave with him at the whipped-up audience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A room with more biohazard suits hanging on hooks. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Did he tell you that?” the man in the grey suit asks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then it happened again: he caught eyes with a man in a suit; the man nodded and gave him a little smile. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I control nothing,” the man in the grey suit says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So I’m left with the last suit: green with gold flowers, swimmable and not ugly. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The velvet suits looked so warm and comfortable, and he decided to try one on. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

To be sure, the charade, with its “ready wit”—but then the “soft eyes”—in fact it suited neither; it was a jumble without taste or truth. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

In Luce’s office two men in business suits were waiting. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, with a mixture of the serious and the playful, which she hoped would best suit his half and half state, she replied, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

One old man even wore a suit coat. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a crisp linen suit and a boater tilted slightly to the left. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t seem well suited to the life of a pastor, where you should be even-tempered and sociable. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He waited outside in the forest while another member of the team put on a space suit and went inside and gave the monkeys massive shots of sedative, which put them to sleep forever. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, an angry little bearded man in a green suit is brought in. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

One slaver in particular, a young man with sideburns in a dark suit and a bowler hat, seemed to be staring directly at Magdalys as he charged, six-shooter raised. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was softer than her rough brown home- spun and fit her much better, but somehow it suited her less. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

You were standing at the beach, squinting out at the water with your bathing suit strap digging into your freckled shoulder. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The other Dauntless traitors follow suit soon after, and everyone is quiet. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We put on his ruffled Sunday suit and I tell him that we are expecting a sweet angel and where angels tread, the hosts must be as beautiful as floating hibiscus. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And the minister, Pastor Johnson, dressed in an oversize suit, a gold chain with a gold cross lying perfectly in the middle of his fat satin tie. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Something went wrong with one of the soldiers’ suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chandresh’s attention remains only on the man in the grey suit, and it does not once wander to this other man who bears a passing resemblance to his assistant. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He wore a suit and tie at the gallery opening, and when it was done, even with doors wide open to him, he went back to living on the streets. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He looks handsome in his suit—not Scott handsome, he’s smaller and paler, and his eyes are a little too close together when you see him up close, but he’s not bad. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luce had another light on a stand, which he angled to suit his purposes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“And how many of your own students have chosen to end the game themselves?” the man in the grey suit asks, turning back. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A man in a black suit is waiting for me at the bottom of the ramp. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And he still wore the star from that time pinned to the lapel of the three-piece woolen suit he had been wearing, summer and winter, for the last thirty years. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheed was still in his black suit, though the stovepipe hat had gotten lost somewhere in time. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Aside from my textbooks, my avatar had only a few meager possessions: a flashlight, an iron shortsword, a small bronze shield, and a suit of banded leather armor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I had to be careful; I didn't want to ruin the suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit puts it in his pocket without so much as glancing at it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After a thorough diagnostic to be sure, I finally had a fully functional EVA suit! The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doris always says that the worst thing ever is a man dressed up in a sharp suit, wearing dirty shoes. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"This dinner on Saturday is in honor of Anu's new job. Come at seven. And please, Darnell, wear something clean and neat. One of your suits." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His mind flashes to Henry, the smooth lines of his suit, the way his breath brushed Alex’s cheek when he kissed him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The man in the pale suit was bigger standing than he had seemed sitting on the plane beside Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The antenna had enough force to punch through the suit and my side, but it had been stopped by my pelvis. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the consulate’s doors people emerge, men in cream-colored suits and women in straw hats, walking arm in arm to a waiting launch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“If you get a rip in your suit, you have to tape it shut right away or you’ll lose your pressure, and contaminated air could flow inside the suit.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The suit,” he said, his voice hardly above a whisper. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I notice they’re both holding the bags of bathing suits I told them to bring, so I grab Camila’s out of her hand in a desperate attempt to change the subject. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The expected use of the rover is to start with full EVA suits and come back with air to spare. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

White lounge chairs encircle the pool, and people wear sunglasses and sip Coca-Cola in their bathing suits. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was younger, that collection of features looked strange, but now it suits him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He wore a Western suit jacket with a vest that closed too tightly around his stomach, but his pants were very loose. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much older and more solemn, the lawyers in dark suits who in other days had flapped about the colonel like crows had returned. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I love the worn wood walls and the low light, and the quiet old men who sit around the bar in their nice pressed suits and talk about their street days. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack hung his suit jacket on the back of his chair and took off his wristwatch, laying it on the table in front of him to keep an eye on the time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Gangsters — known as tsotsis — carrying flick-knives or switchblades were plentiful and prominent; in those days they emulated American movie stars and wore fedoras and double-breasted suits and wide, colorful ties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man with a brown suit and thick glasses like mine was sitting at a desk. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was stripping down to his bathing suit just seconds after getting to the pool deck. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The Baron was getting a new suit for winter. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the solution was the extra EVA suit I brought along. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so Edward Tulane was mended, put together again, cleaned and polished, dressed in an elegant suit and placed on a high shelf for display. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The things I had heard always made it sound like a big, noisy place with a lot of pollution and mobs of people in suits elbowing one another on the sidewalks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a pressurized suit—not an orange Racal suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wore suits and ties and sat upright listening to us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

None of us felt the need to talk much, and that suited me fine. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’s exchanged his military clothes for an elegant, white- vested suit, and his hair is freshly cut. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Everyone there is in a black suit of some sort. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

First came a blast of water jets, which washed traces of blood from her space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the singers in matching suits, spinning and snapping fingers into one loud pop from the radio. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Racing, a sport whose sustained dramatic action was ideally suited to narration, became a staple of the airwave. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was hard to tell from day to day if the gray suit he wore was the same or different from the one he wore before. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He comes up sputtering and shivering, even though he’s wearing a wet suit and scuba goggles, while Sami dances around him and trash-talks. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The sharkskin zoot suit is coming home with me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The pool stays open for fun when it isn't being used for training or meets. But you'd have to put on a bathing suit." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The articles suited the tenor of the moment established by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s febrile accusations of Communist influence in every corner of government. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Amaranta made him a linen suit with a collar and tie, bought him a pair of white shoes, and engraved his name in gilt letters on the ribbon of the candle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m truly sorry my clothes don’t suit your taste.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They wore suits and talked on the phone and typed on machines. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His yellow suit seemed to surprise her, and she squinted suspiciously. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said this polite enough to suit Big Ma but strong enough to suit Papa. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t wear military uniforms but suits, like the Secret Service, and with their fashy haircuts and vicious grins, they’d fit right in at a Unite the Right rally. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Mark’s attention was fully on the man in the green suit now, and a sudden gray tinge washed over the man’s face, as if he’d been possessed by some ghostly presence. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

So she was surprised at the outburst that followed, from a man wearing a brown safari suit and clutching a book: Odenigbo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me that I don’t even have appropriate clothes to wear—no interview suits, no proper slacks or blouses. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In his suit and slicked-back silver hair, he looks more like a school principal than my dad. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Hit jest don’t suit me to go off now. Anyhow, what’s the hurry?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He wore a khaki poplin suit and bow tie. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Until the day came when a black man in a suit and with a funny accent decided to call it his little dream house. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She looked like a flight attendant—blue business suit, perfect makeup, hair pulled back in a ponytail. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The grandfather was dressed in a black broadcloth suit and he wore kid congress gaiters and a black tie on a short, hard collar. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I did that, I took off the uncomfortable EVA suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amarante’s eyes popped open, and he fumbled in his suit pockets for his glasses, which he finally located and lodged in front of his eyes so as to identify the oncoming aircraft. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sadly, the suits of armor were not as easily swayed as the Narcissus Fan Club had been. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

You didn’t need a space suit to handle an Ebola patient. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under his arm he carried his suit and shirt, carefully folded so that they would stay fresh. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He appears wearing a double- breasted suit, an unneeded raincoat draped over his arm. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the gray suit leaned closer to Zane, one thick- gloved hand still resting on the knob of the propane valve. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Cash is waiting for him out in the hallway, his suit abandoned for plainclothes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t his security detail surrounding her remains; instead, there were at least a dozen men and women, all in cloud-colored suits, forming a circle around her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The lady hated the guy in the red suit. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She kissed my forehead again, then leaned back so I could get a clear shot of my father, three-piece suited and shiny-shoed. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Who was that creepy dude with the shaved head and dark suit? Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Wednesday pulled out a narrow gold lighter from the pocket of his pale suit, and lit the old man’s cigarette. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He wore a blue serge suit and a white necktie stained with orange juice. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He began showing up at the barn in neat gray suits, dark vests, whipcord trousers, wing tips, and on race days a restrained Republican tie. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powell said, “Get a pair of suits. We’re going out there.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The man in the yellow suit smiled a ghastly smile. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a majorette before the ever-shifting sidewalk crowd, I smiled during performances, and in Japanese dancing that is equivalent to a concert violinist walking onstage in a bathing suit. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his friends took pictures of one another in bathing suits at Coney Island beach, the salt wind from the Atlantic blowing their hair. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rosa Vaughan’s suit against Burt, who was represented by one of the same law firms that had represented Hale in the murder trials, was initially dismissed in state court. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Gazing into the next case was an elderly man in a pale suit, who smelled sweet. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z